The string of E coli outbreaks has no doubt spread beyond the local growers and th food manufacturers and an article more or less blames it on the lack of an integrated food supply system. Facts provided claims that FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention come into the scene after the food is contaminated, but no set standard is laid for food safety within the food supply system.
Doubtless that FDA has not taken stringent measures to monitor safety from the origin of food to the distribution of the same until it eaches consumers, but there are reports of FDA’s warning to food manufacturers about their food items or their mode of production, susceptible to food contamination.
The FDA has not only warned the producers but also the consumers regarding food contamination. However the risk analysis in the form of precautionary measures have never been incorporated by the producers, but it s high time that the FDA converts the precautionary measures into legislation for inhibiting the expansion of the food contamination chain from spinach to lettuce and from tomatoes to chocolates.
