Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks Find It Safe

[mookiemookie]

Beach was one of 33 people killed by listeria that was later traced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and state officials to contaminated cantaloupes from one Colorado farm. It was the deadliest outbreak of foodborne disease in the U.S. in almost 100 years.

***8220;He died in terror and pain,***8221; says his daughter Debbie Frederick.

About seven weeks after Beach started eating cantaloupes, a private, for-profit inspection company awarded a top safety rating to Jensen Farms, the Granada, Colorado, grower of his toxic fruit. The approval meant retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Wegmans Food Markets Inc. could sell Jensen melons.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-1...d-it-safe.html

Much the same as in the financial world - self regulation is the same as no regulation at all. Well on second thought, I guess the whole "free market" ideology is working in this scenario - dead consumers won't buy a shoddy product.