date:Jun 14, 2012
Dr. Richard Raymond is former undersecretary for food safety at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and is now a food safety senior advisor to APCO Worldwide. He says that consumers have lost trust in the food industry as the number of media reports about foodborne illness has increased over the past ten years even though the number of foodborne illnesses has actually dropped by more than 20% during that time.
He says media reports increased dramatically after the Center for Disease Contr