Is America's Food Supply Safe?

          The food supply safety in America has improved very much within time. We have things like cooking labels on packaging; hotdogs for example have a packaging with a specified internal heat. We have become a place where if you’re applying for employment in a place like McDonald’s or Chipotle, you must know food handling safety. We also have restaurant, and vendor evaluation grades plastered in a place where people can see and decide whether they want to go in, and eat or not.

            Almost every time there is a problem with food it is shown on the media. When there’s an E.coli problem it is stated specifically in what product, and from where it is shipping. Many food products have contamination recently in the past, and those products are then put on recall, and announced. Things like tomatoes have been contaminated and bought to light, and the FDA finds a way to resolve it. Health has become such an important issue in America that even doctors are doing test on their patients. Bacterial infections like H Pylori which is a bacterial stomach infection, have become a normal situation for some doctors. Even though the FDA has inspectors at borders, things like H Pylori are still getting by in tropical food.

            We do things like inspect food at borders, and work with food safety at companies, but sometimes people at their own homes do neglect their food safety. Many people do know at what temperature their food needs to be for it to be safe, but they don’t know how to calculate that temperature. The FDA makes sure that food handling instructions are clearly printed on products. Whether the product needs to be refrigerated, or heated to a certain extent so when people do get sick it’s usually because they neglected some instruction. The FDA is doing everything they can do to ensure our safety.

            The FDA has made people aware of the dangers in foods like peanut butter. Salmonella became a huge issue in Peanut butter. Also E.Coli became an issue in pork. Both of these food products were treated by the FDA with care by finding out where the food product came from, and fixing it. America has one of the safest food supply in the world by ensuring that everyone knows how to take care of their food.