A Progress Paradox: How Food Safety Gets Better While Companies Feel Worse
- Improving technology has enabled the food production system to become progressively safer
- Identifying pathogens and connecting incidents has led to an increase in the identification of foodborne illness outbreaks
- Understanding why infectious disease mortality has dropped dramatically in the last 100 plus years but there is still a lot of foodborne illness
- Discussing federal, state, local and industry roles in collaborating to improve food borne outbreak investigations
- Exploring the science behind contaminants and human health that affect food safety protocols