This is not a foolproof system.
Caroline Smith DeWaal
Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the school cafeteria. Until now, many parents had to jump through hoops to track down inspection reports. Posting these reports in schools and on the Internet will be a powerful incentive for schools to run clean and safe cafeterias.
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It is good that they are funding new inspectors for overseas, but they haven't begun to grapple with the fact that they need new inspectors for domestic produce and seafood.
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Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.
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The U.S. Has had fire walls in place to protect the cattle population from getting infected with mad cow disease and there are some gaps in these fire walls.
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The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.
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You can't have a testing program of this nature where it addresses a public health need and keep the information secret.
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Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.
For the industry to step up like this and start the testing program is a very important improvement. But it's critical that USDA ensure that all chicken producers are complying with the same requirements.
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It is far more likely that you will die from a heart attack caused by eating a lot of beef than you would from BSE.
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