Personal Injury Law

Fashion over food safety -- Baltimore Sun edition

By Doug Powell

Joan Westlake of the Baltimore Sun writes that the very fruits and vegetables you are eating to be healthy can make you deathly ill. You've seen it in the headlines - E. coli on spinach, Listeria on sliced melon and Salmonella on shelled hazelnuts. The Food and Drug Administration spent a good deal of time early last year investigating three different alfalfa sprout illness outbreaks.

Westlake says, in some completely unsubstantiated BS, that the major contributing factors - factory farms and improper food handling - are not going away any time soon.

She then mechanically recites the clean, cook, separate and chill factors without saying anything about sourcing food from safe sources – especially since she cited fresh produce as a food safety risk factor.

Just more of what passes for food safety news nonsense.
 

Full post as published by BarfBlog on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).