Critics believe stopping contaminated foods are most unlikely

February 5, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota – There was a Georgia peanut factory that was supervised with inferior food safety measurements. This caused an outbreak of salmonella, contained in the food that the factory was distributing. There were already eight deaths because of the food. At least five hundred people at minimum in critical conditions caused by the contamination. Thousands of peanut products were prevented from being sold or shipped. However, the federal Food and Drug Administration were belatedly to thwart the problem. Minnesota authorities recognized that peanut butter was the main reason that caused the epidemic of the flu. The main difficulties to was it would be impossible to stop companies from shipping the polluted products. Another trouble was that the nation was not making enough food plants federal inspections. The inspectors tracked down the company’s records and found that the company had knowingly shipped products with salmonella. However, the company denied for shipping the hazardous products and proved that the products do not contain any salmonella. It was believed that the private inspections were bribed to give the plant high ratings about its sanitation. The company promised “to ensure the public safety” and stated that “it never happens again.” The Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said that the food products that tests for salmonella had one positive and one negative. The company was criticized on believing the positive testing. Irvin stated that when a product contained salmonella, it “should be destroyed”. Critics also believe that the company was extremely irresponsible for this event. Some families of the victims were not told if their families’ died in food poisonings, the government was trying to cover it up.

The FDA proclaimed that Peanut Corporation of America will be trailed by a federal criminal investigation into the outbreak. Company executives will be required to go for the conference that will be held a week later.

This article proved that America’s food products are as worse as what they criticize other countries’ food products. I had always believed that America companies were strict on manufacturing food and any company under that country will have one of the best quality food internationally. However, this issue had proved that I was wrong. Now I fear to purchase any American based peanut product. I fear that if I consume these products, I might end up as the same fate of the ones who were in critical conditions after consuming the goods. To stop this from happening, if I was the government, I would make more stricter rules and assign more jobs on food inspectors. This could not only tackle the food contamination issues, but this could also stop the problem of unemployment, since the financial crisis. I hope that the new appointed food inspectors will be more cautious and stand up for justice; so they won't be bribed by the companies to give them superb ratings. I hope this could prevent future food

contamination.

Hyperlink: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/05/peanut.recall/index.html