A great Op-ed from the Herald Tribune: Decline in food-safety inspections could make you ill. Here’s an unappetizing sampling:
An Associated Press analysis of federal records found that safety inspections by the Food and Drug Administration plummeted 47 percent between 2003 and 2006. The same analysis showed that FDA safety tests on U.S.-produced food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reminding consumers of the dangers of drinking milk that has not been pasteurized, known as raw milk. Raw milk potentially contains a wide variety of harmful bacteria – including Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Listeria, Campylobacter and Brucella &ndash