Food Contamination is On the Rise. Here’s What History Can Teach Us About How to Stop It.

America Dissected

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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One of the hallmarks of living in a high-income country is that we can usually take food safety for granted. But what happens when food contamination recalls are on the rise? Food contamination was a full-blown epidemic at the turn of the 20th century. Abdul reflects on how much behind-the-scenes work goes into keeping food safe. Then he interviews Deborah Blum, a science journalist and author of two books about the history of food safety about what the history of food safety regulation should teach us about the future.

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1:35.2	It read, and I quote, certain cinnamon apple sauce puree pouches recalled due to high levels of lead.
1:40.9	Lead in apples sauce in the United States in 2023. We assume that the food
1:47.3	we eat is safe and secure, that in the richest most powerful country in the world, the stuff
1:51.6	you put into your body won't make you sick.
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