Yes, the number of food recalls has been rising. Here's what you need to know
NPRYes, the number of food recalls has been rising. "I think that this most recent spate of outbreaks and recalls has made the average American consumer more anxious about food safety," says Darin Detwiler, a longtime food safety advocate and professor at Northeastern University. "Typically, on average, fresh produce accounts for roughly half of all the number of outbreaks that we have in the U.S.," says Amanda Deering, associate professor of food science at Purdue University. "If you cut something that's fresh, the knife edge can push the contamination from the surface to the flesh," says food scientist Don Schaffner of Rutgers University. It's also "the biggest cause of hospitalization and death in our food system," Sarah Sorscher, director of regulatory affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told NPR's 1A program in September.
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