Families of those affected by recent peanut butter and spinach contamination reached out to U.S. lawmakers this week. Their purpose: to ensure that federal oversight of the nation's food supply is strengthened.

The e-coli contamination of bagged spinach and the peanut butter bacterial infection from ConAgra (based in Nebraska) has shed new light on the food supply safety of food sold in the U.S., as it should.

We all take for granted that the food we eat is safe, but with more and more imported food and less resources from the FDA to police the food supply for 300 million people, are we really that safe?