The amount of fraudulent advertising and preparation of food items has some people alarmed. Not because it’s hard to detect or because thousands are dying as a result, but because people are spending money for quality foods and ending up with junk. For example—
- Honey mixed with sugar beets or corn syrup. Same high price, same advertising as 100% pure.
- Cheese made from cow’s milk sold as “sheep’s milk” for a premium price.
- Cheap frozen catfish filet sold to major retailers as grouper, red snapper, and flounder fish.
The FDA is being pressured to clamp down harder on rules to keep our food healthy and safe.
According to John Spink, a food and packaging fraud expert at Michigan State University, at least 5 to 7 percent of the U.S. food supply is affected by fraud, but the actual number may be much higher.
The Food and Drug Administration has full responsibility to be sure that food is oirrectly labeled, but problems with food contamination have been given a higher priority than has fraud. Labeling accuracy is the job of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has been so busy trying to prevent food contamination that it has put “mere fraud” on a back burner, according to reporters for the Washington Post.
Sources: Washington Post, FDA
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