Food Safety Planning

In the article, Now it’s tomatoes, the author writes about the last week’s tomato salmonella outbreak that have infected many people in the US. More than 160 people have been sickened, and at least 23 of them hospitalized from eating tomatoes since mid-April. The government has been tracking the strain of this problem but the source of this problem is still unknown.
The author argues that since last year’s problems with spinach, peanut butter and imported sea food, Congress and the Bush administration promised to a lot more to ensure the safety of food supply, but they haven’t done nearly enough.
Food-safety bills have been moving along far too slowly on Capitol Hill. This tells us that the government is not doing a good job protecting us. Most of the foods in the markets are imported and the government does not have an efficient “trace-back system”, we don’t know exactly where our food comes from. The tomato scare pushed the administration into asking for an additional $125 million for the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety programs to hire more inspectors and to make a stronger “trace-back system” in order to identify the source of contamination quickly.
Hopefully with this additional money to the Food and Drug Administration we will be more protected because we need to improve our food-safety programs.
We need much better protection and the government should not wait until the next food scare before taking action in this issue.
Solving this problem is a priority. I believe our government must take serious action because if we don’t know exactly where all the food come from. Then we have a serious problem.