The food industry’s self-regulation is a spectacular failure

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The food industry’s self-regulation is a spectacular failure

“Hm. Which of these has the least listeria?” If you are a person who eats food, you’ll want to read Bloomberg’s look at the system of self-regulation by food producers . Actually, no. You won’t want to read it, unless you like stories of convulsive bloody deaths and details about the amount of human feces on your food. In short: During the past two decades, the food industry has taken over much of the FDA’s role in ensuring that what Americans eat is safe. The agency can’t come close to vetting its jurisdiction of $1.2 trillion in annual food sales. In 2011, the FDA inspected 6 percent of domestic food producers and just 0.4 percent of importers. The FDA has had no rules for how often food producers must be inspected. The food industry hires for-profit inspection companies — known as third-party auditors — who aren’t required by law to meet any federal standards and have n...

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