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Bureaucracy, Bacteria, And Blame: Risk Based Inspection Systems And The Modern Food Saftey Scheme, Educating Americans To Just Do It Well Done, Heather N. Sutton Dec 2008

Bureaucracy, Bacteria, And Blame: Risk Based Inspection Systems And The Modern Food Saftey Scheme, Educating Americans To Just Do It Well Done, Heather N. Sutton

Heather N. Sutton

This comment focuses on the recent implementation of the risk based inspection system (RBIS) by the United States Department of Agriculture. A discussion of food safety evolution and consideration of the impact of the system, pre-RBIS and post-RBIS, concludes that consumer savviness is not adequately taken into account and that education as to food safety and risk is the most efficient and necessary component to government efforts to address consumer health as related to food consumption.