date:Oct 15, 2012
orted by the food industry itself and which are often subject to little (if any) government oversight.
The most damning facet of the Bloomberg Markets story is its exposure of the many instances in which a private food inspection agency certified a producer as safe just weeks before or after food from that producer sickened, and even killed, scores of people. The first page of the story includes the following shocking passage:
Six audits gave sterling marks to the cantaloupe farm, an egg produ