Foods that are like roulette
We rank everything else, so why not the riskiest foods?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has ranked the top 10 foods that carry food-borne illnesses, as reported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The list focuses on seafood, eggs, dairy and produce — the four categories of food regulated by the FDA. Meat, monitored by the United States Department of Agriculture, is not included among the riskiest foods.
CSPI stressed the study was not designed to condemn particular foods items or even make comments about people’s diets, but instead is meant as a criticism of the industrialization of agriculture and the current system of oversight:
“A complex, globalized food system, archaic food-safety laws, and the rise of large-scale production and processing have combined to create a perfect storm of unsafe food,” the study states.
