When reviewing the year in the news, one can’t help but notice that the main news outlets had a lot of stories about food safety. We heard all about poultry inspection, multiple legal cases concerning food safety, auditors being sued because a company passed an audit and then their product was identified as having caused illness, FSIS performing criminal investigations, FDA pressing forward with several criminal cases, foreign food causing illness, sales of U.S. food overseas being stopped for political as well as alleged food-safety issues, lawsuits to stop the poultry slaughter inspection rule — the list goes on and on. It makes me wonder if it will ever be safe to eat again!
Of course, I do plan on eating dinner, and soon — so what is really going on with food safety?