Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Food Contamination in Our Marketplace

More and more families are beginning to grow their own fruits and vegetables due to their increased concerned regarding the quality and safety of our food supply. In the past year and a half the pathogens in certain foods that we always assumed to be safe have accounted for illnesses in over 1300 people with at least three fatalities. Scientists are not really sure how these food staples became contaminated, and are increasingly concerned that our current methods of isolating the sources of contamination before this tainted food ends up in the marketplace are woefully inadequate.

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