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Half of Americans losing trust in
food supply Source of Article: http://www.ift.org/news_bin/news/news_home.shtml 11/25/2008-According to a recent national food safety and labeling poll
conducted by While 73% polled currently regard the overall food supply as safe, 48%
said their confidence in the safety of the nation’s food supply is slipping.
Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects domestic food
production facilities once every five to 10 years,
and foreign facilities less frequently. Two-thirds of respondents said the
FDA should inspect domestic and foreign food-processing facilities at least
once a month. Additionally, eight in 10 consumers strongly agree that when food safety
problems arise, the FDA should disclose to the public the location of
retailers who sold the potentially harmful food, including fish, produce, and
processed foods, as the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) is currently
required to do for meat. On Nov. 19, the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board approved standards
that would allow organic fish farmers to use wild fish as part of their feed
mix provided it did not exceed 25% of the total. Yet, 93% of Americans agree
that fish labeled as organic should be produced by 100% organic feed. Finally, while the FDA recently proposed allowing meat or milk products
from cloned or genetically engineered animals to be sold without labels, 94%
of those polled believe that meat and dairy products from cloned animals
should be labeled as such. As Urvashi Rangan,
Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Policy Analyst at Consumers Union explained, “The
American public wants to know more about their food, where it comes from, how
safe it is, and will vote with their dollars to support highly meaningful
labels.” Labeling farmed fish organic story |
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