Not a single day goes by when we don’t hear about the critical importance of food safety. We need to develop, embrace and encourage a robust food-safety culture, we’re told. We have to tirelessly reassess and verify the effectiveness of our food-safety programs, we’re led to believe. We have to invest in, and then build into our facilities, the best leading-edge interventions. And, we have to implement and invest in an increasing level of environmental and food product sampling and testing, it is suggested.
That all sounds really great, but the reality is: We face substantial underlying fundamental problems when it comes to improving food safety.