Food Rules Essay

Regulations and rules are made meant to protect us from harm. There are rules for everything, even food. For instance, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA). The FSMA aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to prevent it. Many food service operations do not always follow the rules and that can be very harmful to the consumers, if it is serious, it could even lead to death. The rules for food consists of regulations, common practices, and court cases.

In the rule making process, there are three steps on how the rules are made. First, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposes a rule and requests comments. Next, the FDA considers your comments issues a final rule. Lastly, companies

Managers admitted that fifty four percent pooled raw shell eggs that were not used immediately, they were held for six hours instead of four. Also, twenty six percent of eggs were stored at room temperature which was not recommended by the FDA. Also, the mangers were not handling raw chicken carefully. Forty percent of them said that they did not always assign certain cutting boards for raw meat. Twenty nine percent said they did not wash and rinse the surfaces before sanitizing. Another example is cooling food incorrectly, out of four hundred and twenty restaurants, thirty nine percent were not cooled in shallow pans. In food workers’ food preparation, four hundred and eighty six food workers were interviewed. Thirty three percent admitted that they were not changing gloves or washing their hands frequently after working with raw meat. Some came to work while they were throwing up or experiencing diaherra. Lastly, four hundred and forty nine restaurants workers were interviewed about tomatoes. Forty nine percent said that certain cutting

If they do not make sure that the food is safe and someone gets sick, it could end up in a lawsuit. For example, Stewart Parnell, he was sixty one and the president of the peanut company, and Michael Parnell, his brother, two former officials of a peanut company got sentenced to prison because they shipped salmonella-positive peanut products before the results of microbiological testing were received. Stewart got sentenced to three hundred and thirty six months in prison and his brother got two hundred and forty months to serve in prison. This is unprofessional and disgusting. Purposefully putting people in danger because they could not wait for test results, which is just cruel, they should be punished for putting people in danger. Another court case is two cantaloupe farmers were arrested over a deadly Food Bourne Illness, listeria. In 2011 the FDA said that the Janson’s farm led to the listeria outbreak that killed thirty three people. Also, the FDA said that people in twenty eight different states ate the contaminated fruit, and one hundred and forty seven people were hospitalized. In Ohio, A woman named Constance George filed a lawsuit against Dole Fresh Vegetables, after a salad mix tainted with listeria put her mother, Kiki Christofield, in a coma. She bought the salad from Kroger. The main corporation of Kroger is in Ohio. After she ate some of the salad, she staring to feel pain