We All Eat Contaminated Food

Got the report from BBC the day it was issued. Skippy Peanut Butter recalled March 4, 2011. My wife had just bought some, but it was not part of the recalled batch.

There is only one way to contaminate a batch of peanut butter with salmonella; by feces contamination. Somebody does not know they must wash hands after going potty?

Any way, just to inform you all; it's impossible to completely eliminate or prevent the contamination of our food, so your FDA and the counterpart in my country issues acceptable contamination levels.

Here's a sample of your FDA's list:

Our counterpart allows higher levels than yours, but our exporters use your FDA's list.

As a Risk surveyor, I get to see the food being processed, cooked and put into bulk storage.  Once, after surveying a bakery, it took years before I resumed buying their stuff again.  After surveying a small beverage manufacturer, I have yet to resume buying their beverages.

Here's how sugar gets into the export warehouse:

It is taken by tipper trucks to the warehouse and offloaded onto conveyor by being poured through a steel grid on the floor of the warehouse.  Staff with shovels assist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When this gets to its destination it has to be processed again.

Once a product gets to bulk storage, contamination is unavoidable.  Even harvesting adds contaminants and it is impossible to completely eliminate them.