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Article: The Food Safety Enhancement Act: How A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Can Help You Be Prepared
Do you know where your food comes from? How sure are you that it was grown, processed, or produced with your safety as the priority? Increasingly this issue is headline news as we struggle with managing the outbreak of food borne illnesses caused by the very stuff of our daily lives: salmonella contaminated peanut butter; e-coli contaminated beef and pork; contaminated spinach, lettuce and strawberries; melamine in milk.
In each instance, the grower or producer had inadequate methods in place to trace the original source of the contamination. The Mexican tomato business was devastated in 2009 when tomatoes were wrongly blamed for an outbreak of salmonella that was actually caused by tainted jalapeño peppers. Without proper systems in place to provide traceability, there was no way to know the contamination source. Several people died, many more became ill and a major business was destroyed for lack of information. The ultimate price for those food producers is that not only have they lost revenue due to product recalls, but more importantly they have also lost the trust of the buying public – and governments around the world have taken notice.
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