Globalisation exposes food supply to unsanitary practices
Monday, June 2, 2008 - 17:42
in Health & Medicine
As the United States continues to import increasingly more of its food from developing nations, we are putting ourselves at greater risk of foodborne disease because many of these countries do not have the same sanitary standards for production, especially in the case of seafood and fresh produce, say scientists today at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston...
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