Who Ordered the Food Poisoning?

This resulted in thousands of cases of milk-borne salmonellosis and some deaths.

Moreover, people seem to have forgotten that foods without as much salt or preservatives don’t keep as long as they once did.

It never ceases to amaze me that consumers who spend considerable time reading the labels on supermarket products to ensure they’re purchasing preservative and salt-free products will also purchase a frozen chicken, toss it in the back of the car and go and watch their children play sport on a hot day, then eat the chicken a day or so later and wonder why they have an upset stomach.

In the final analysis, there is probably no such thing as pathogen-free food. However, we do possess the means of better production and safer testing, and we do need to be more vigilant.

Food-borne illness remains one of the largest preventable public health problems in this country. We need to be much more conscious of it and how our everyday behaviour might be placing us at risk.