Opinion: Has food industry learned lesson over salmonella losses?
There's too much we don't know about what we eat, and food industry is largely to blame. After 9/11, food industry spent $2.6 million lobbying against stronger food safety rules that would have required source tracing. Bush administration backed business; this season, tomato growers alone lost $250 million so far in salmonella outbreak.
Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) 2008-07-28
Categories: Editorials, Food Safety, OPINION, POLITICS
Index: commingling, FDA, Food Marketing Institution, food safety, food-borne illness, FoodLogiQ, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Mexico, N.C., Piedmont Biofarm, Pittsboro, Saintpaul, salmonella, serrano peppers, tomatoes, USDA