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There are ways to make food safer

Posted on May 14th 2007 8:12PM by Brian White

Filed Under: Nutrition & Supplements

Considering the winding and long route most food takes from the growing arena to your dinner table, are you concerned about how safe it all may be?

Sure, the standards of food consumed in the U.S. are rigid and are checked by regulatory agencies quite regularly. Food in the U.S. is pretty safe, all things considered. That, or there would be millions of food sicknesses each day as well all go about our lives and rely on others for supplying us with food.

The recent peanut butter and bagged spinach recalls have made it hard to trust food safety, but it's generally still intact in the U.S. Even with the recent (and ongoing) pet food recall, have all these events shattered your belief in the safety of the U.S. food supply? Read this and see if there are steps you can take to make your food safer.

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Crabby McSlacker 6-06-2007 @ 10:12AM

The government has been doing a terrible job of regulating food safety these days.

But I'm afraid I'm not much better myself.

(For further adventures in questionable food safety practices, you can check out my grouchy little health and fitness blog:

http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/2007/05/five-second-rule-scientists-actually.html

Richard Pawley 6-06-2007 @ 11:04AM

"In recent weeks livestock originating in China has been quarantined either for disease or chemical contaminants banned in U.S. livestock. A report a few weeks ago found catfish fillets from fish raised in China's giant aquatic farms were tainted with bacteria and heavy metals.

Those examples are among the few inspectors caught. In realty, Americans strolling through their food market have no idea if meat or fish or anything else imported from China is clean and safe because food safety regulations are not enforced and port inspections are hit-and-miss at best....Americans are facing an unprecedented food crisis because of lack of controls on raw food products and processed foods from China. The federal Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture are so far behind the Chinese imports curve that only a tiny percentage of food coming from the world's most populous country is inspected before it hits the grocery shelves." Also, according to TFP where I gleaned this information, the agriculatural products we import from China are now up to 2 Billion and 26 Million last year. Even Chinese toothpaste has been shown to contain poison but that was in Costa Rica. It may cost more to avoid Chinese but I will do my best. I was shocked to discover that many vitamin supplements or what they are made from are actually made in China. I guess, as usual, it comes down to you get what you pay for. The ironic thing is that those over there who can afford it prefer to use our toothpaste and other consumables.