Local authorities' environmental health departments are underfunded and short of staff and resources. They are not required to make their findings public and data on food contamination is only made available on request. None of these facts are unknown to those connected with monitoring the food industry. Numerous committees in the last 10 years have made recommendations to improve the situation, but these have never been acted upon. The explanation is very simple.
Food poisoning is the price paid by the public to ensure the healthy profits of agribusiness.
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