date:Oct 15, 2012
The U.S. federal government has been fighting foodborne illness for a century, ever since Upton Sinclair terrified the country with The Jungle, his expose of the Chicago meatpacking industry. Many think these measures have been successful. House Republicans, for example, recently voted to cut the FDA's budget for food safety, using the argument that our food system is 99 percent safe.
Widely-touted statistics about the prevalence of food poisoning cast some serious aspersions on that idea. In 2