How safe is our food? Not safe enough, says PIRG Consumer Watchdog team, and it’s trending in the wrong direction

Unsafe food recalls in the U.S. are trending the wrong way. From 2013 to 2017, they rose 10 percent overall, and a whopping 83 percent for the most hazardous meat and poultry recalls.

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Unsafe food recalls in the U.S. are trending the wrong way. From 2013 to 2017, they rose 10 percent overall, and a whopping 83 percent for the most hazardous meat and poultry recalls.

These were the chief findings in “How Safe Is Our Food?”, a report released by U.S. PIRG Education Fund, the research and policy arm of our national network, on Jan. 17. The report reached millions of people through coverage on CBS This Morning, NBC News and USA Today.

“We need to be looking for these farm-to-fork preventative solutions that are logical,” PIRG Consumer Watchdog Adam Garber told USA Today. “By doing that, we can protect people’s health.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 in 6 people in the U.S. contract foodborne illnesses each year. To stem the problem, our Consumer Watchdog team is calling for public health standards for agricultural water, a ban on Salmonella in meat, and a better recall system to get dangerous food out of people’s homes.

Read the report here.

Photo Caption: U.S. PIRG’s Consumer Watchdog Campaign Director Adam Garber appeared on CBS This Morning to announce the release of “How Safe is Our Food?” report. Photo Credit: CBS This Morning

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