What Needs to Be Done to Improve Food Safety

We are all familiar with various highly publicized outbreaks of microbial foodborne illness that have occurred in recent years. We have also noticed that transmission of pathogens has occurred recently through consumption of not only products of animal origin but also foods of plant origin.

Potential reasons for the increasing food safety concerns include changes in food production, processing, and distribution practices; increased international food trade; changing consumer needs and expectation…