Is America's Food Supply Safe?  Blog#1

        Did you know that the F.D.A makes sure that our food is safe? According to Dr.David Acheson who is a Assistant Commissioner for food protection, he say's that Americans have the safest food supplies in the world, The F.D.A is always working to protect our food from bacterial and chemical contamination, also the F.D.A have 625 investigators all over the country who inspect our food supply. I think that the F.D.A is truly doing a good job looking over our food supply and they should keep up the good work, I respect them for looking out for our safety.

      The F.D.A works hard everyday to make sure our food supply is safe.According to the article "if we  suspect any food is unsafe we work to catch problems early,we try to find out how the problem started, fix it and prevent it from happening again".What this quote means is that the F.D.A will make sure the food is safe and if it isn't the F.D.A will fix it and make sure it wont happen again.For example,when I went to a restaurant called  Topaz that didn't have a inspection grade yet, while I was eating a meal I saw a mice running and eating the food that was just cooked and on display. The employees were in the back room and I also noticed a lot of mice feces all over the floor.The restaurant was clearly filthy and unsafe to eat at.Weeks later the restaurant was closed down,so I asked the owner of the restaurant why is the restaurant closed and he said "the F.D.A agents are fixing the rodent problem ".The next following week I went to the restaurant and I saw a huge change, the restaurant was very clean. I saw no mice feces on the floor, it was spotless and it looked like a safe place to eat at now.The restaurant now had a grade "A" for inspection.This show's that the F.D.A   fixed the rodent problem and they prevented it from happening again for our protection.

     The F.D.A makes sure that the food from different countries is safe when coming to the U.S. According to the article "The F.D.A has inspectors at our borders to prevent unsafe food exported to the U.S meet our standards".What this quote mean is that the F.D.A has food standards and if the food from other counties don't meet the standards it can not enter the U.S grounds.For example I have not experienced this but I have a perfect example.I was watching a documentary about food and the there was part when the U.S was picking up food supply from Brazil, such as tons of sacks of rice and green plantains.The rice met the U.S standards but the plantains didn't. The plantains weren't fresh they were either moldy,  partly open or had animal bite marks on them. In the documentary about food the F.D.A gathered all the food and stated to inspect them. If it wasn't good it was thrown out and if it was fresh it was allowed to pass the border and enter U.S grounds to be  sold at local groceries stores.This shows that the F.D.A doesn't want poor quality food form other countries to enter the U.S grounds but if it meets the U.S standards it is accepted to enter the U.S for our safety

    In conclusion the F.D.A is concern with our food safety and they want us to have the best quality  food supply possible and they are trying to do their best.They have a lot of F.D.A agents around the border looking out  for our safety.Therefore we have nothing t worry about since our food supply is n great condition.