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Check Please: Using Legal Liability To Inform Food Safety Regulation, Alexia Brunet Marks
Check Please: Using Legal Liability To Inform Food Safety Regulation, Alexia Brunet Marks
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Food safety is a hotly debated issue. While food nourishes, sustains, and enriches our lives, it can also kill us. At any given meal, our menu comes from a dozen different sources. Without proper incentives to encourage food safety, microbial pathogens can, and do enter the food source--so much so that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year roughly one in six Americans (or forty-eight million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. What is the optimal way to prevent unsafe foods from entering the marketplace?
Safety in the food …
In-Kind Class Action Settlements, Scott R. Peppet