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granted this a a political article to an extent, but at the same time, how many of us actually believe that major corporations "police themselves" with regard to federal safety regulations?
Claims are being made that food safety costs are costing jobs(it's overkill), when the last change in federal food safety regulations were in 1938, shortly after the book "The Jungle" was published. So Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but how exactly does complying with regulations that haven't changed in 73 years costing money? One would think 73 years would be more than enough time to make cost effective changes to comply.....
And yes I do still work in food safety, I got to unload the salmonella contaminated peanuts that were shipped to consumers in the form of contaminated peanut butter because the company didn't want to dump the batch and instead had the samples tested until they came up negative and ignored all the previous testing(seriously some samples took 7-8 times to show negative), which is perfectly legal by the way, it's called "testing into compliance", and a lot of companies do it.
I've read my boss' deposition on a company that made ready-to-eat foods for kids, and their quality assurance officer was a radio DJ! The contact surfaces had 4-10x the amount of listeria as a dairy barn full of cows.
granted this a a political article to an extent, but at the same time, how many of us actually believe that major corporations "police themselves" with regard to federal safety regulations?
Claims are being made that food safety costs are costing jobs(it's overkill), when the last change in federal food safety regulations were in 1938, shortly after the book "The Jungle" was published. So Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but how exactly does complying with regulations that haven't changed in 73 years costing money? One would think 73 years would be more than enough time to make cost effective changes to comply.....
And yes I do still work in food safety, I got to unload the salmonella contaminated peanuts that were shipped to consumers in the form of contaminated peanut butter because the company didn't want to dump the batch and instead had the samples tested until they came up negative and ignored all the previous testing(seriously some samples took 7-8 times to show negative), which is perfectly legal by the way, it's called "testing into compliance", and a lot of companies do it.
I've read my boss' deposition on a company that made ready-to-eat foods for kids, and their quality assurance officer was a radio DJ! The contact surfaces had 4-10x the amount of listeria as a dairy barn full of cows.
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