Blog post -inspections of import;pesticides

           

         Food consumed by the general public should be inspected, sanitary and free of pesticides. if it is not the people should be informed of such and able to make the decision on whether or not they want to take the chance of consuming food that may or may not be up to code. In a general sense, food should be kept in a
clean, sanitary, space. The Quality of food, unadulterated, is important because peoples lives matter, they shouldn't have to worry about their children or themselves getting sick because the quality of their food is questionable. Transporting and receiving food is a major part in the process of importing food and keeping it up to good quality. Many of the factors during transportation include food temperature, food condition, timeliness of storage, etc. these are essential because if any one of these are not done correctly it could drastically change the food.
       who is responsible for ensuring food safety? The FDA, which stands for food and drug
 administration, is responsible for protecting the health of  human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices. Timmerman mentions arsenic pesticide multiple times throughout his book, which is a naturally occurring element widely distributed in soils and minerals.  Old agricultural soils may contain high levels of arsenic resulting from its former agricultural uses, levels too high to be considered legal. There is no real way of knowing whether our food contains this pesticide because this information is not open to the public "in 2001 the food and drug administration (FDA) inspected less than one percent of imported foods"(timmerman 189) not even half of our food was inspected so if the don't know, how are we supposed to know? It is their job to inspect and assure that that the food that is being imported is safe for human consumption,they're not doing what they should be if only one percent of food that will be distributed to the public is inspected.More than the legal amount of arsenic pesticide may or may not have been in the food however we would not know because the food was not inspected properly which is necessary for the welfare of the public.
      This is not something that can just go unaccounted for, this is something that can become extremely deadly to millions of people if not handled properly, this is important and that needs to be understood specifically by the FDA. Their jobs and millions of lives are on the line, the need to make a change quickly.