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Title: Recalls and food safety


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Recalls and food safety
  • Russell Lilly
  • Department of Health and Senior services

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What we will discuss
  • Relative risk and risk / benefit analysis
  • All about food recalls
  • What we are doing about it
  • Answer some specific questions

3
Is it OK to eat fresh veggies?
  • Absolutely
  • They are good for you

4
In the news
  • Corporate Agribusiness Is Behind Our Deadly Food
    Supply    
  • Amid high-profile food recalls, FDA inspections
    languish
  • "We have a food safety crisis on the horizon,"
    said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for
    Food Safety at the University of Georgia.

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  • "Our food safety structure is collapsing and
    endangering public health," said Democratic Rep.
    Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut,

6
How bad is it?
  • 76,000,000 illnesses
  • 325,000 hospitalizations
  • 5,000 deaths

7
Some perspective Causes of Death
  • Heart Disease 654,000
  • Cancer 550,000
  • Stroke 150,000
  • Accidents 109,000
  • Foodborne illness 5,000
  • .2

8
Our history

9
  • 1900 Typhoid rate 100/100,000
  • 1950 Typhoid rate 1.7/100/000

Ten Great Public Health Achievements -- United
States, 1900-1999
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A bigger threat?
  • Bioterrorism and the Food Supply
  • By Kevin Coleman , Technolytics October 01,
    2004

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Some risk is unavoidable
  • Breakdowns and mistakes in processing
  • Sometimes where we least expect it

12
How much food do we eat?
  • 23,000,000,000 pounds of fresh fruit
  • 55,250,000,000 pounds of vegetables
  • 58,250,000,000 pounds of milk and cream
  • 78,000,000,000 pounds of red meat

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How much risk?
  • 273,750,000,000 Meals per year
  • 76,000,000 illnesses is
  • .028
  • Or 1 in 3,600 meals cause illness

14
Our food supply is safe
  • Abundant
  • And Cheap
  • 11 of disposable income
  • 2 billion people will go to bed hungry tonight

15
What is a food recall
  • When a company voluntarily has its product
    removed from distribution because of a problem

16
How many food recalls do we have
  • Nationwide about 188 per year
  • Missouri numbers
  • 2000-28 2004-19
  • 2001-21 2005-20
  • 2002-29 2006-7
  • 2003-16 YTD 2007-7

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Notable food outbreaks/recalls
  • Milk 1986
  • 16,000 cases of salmonella
  • Ice Cream 1994
  • 224,000 cases of salmonella
  • Cereal 1998
  • 200 cases of salmonella

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Notable food outbreaks/recalls
  • Hamburger 1997
  • 20 cases of E-coli 25,000,000 pounds recalled
  • Spinach 2006
  • 200 cases of E-coli
  • 4 last week
  • Peanut Butter - Salmonella
  • Cantaloupe - Salmonella
  • Baby food - Clostridium Botulinum
  • Chicken breast strips - Lysteria

22
Spinach outbreak

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Is it safe to eat spinach again?
  • Unusual outbreak/recall
  • Sep 14 FDA warning- do not eat any
  • Sep 29 update, warning limited to one parent firm
    and four others receiving their product
  • As soon as it reappeared in the distribution
    chain it would have been from safe sources

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What is the government going to do about it?
  • A lot
  • Food safety staff in Missouri
  • USDA dozens to hundreds
  • MoAg 10
  • FDA 10
  • State Health 10
  • Local Health 200

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What have we done?
  • USDA/MoAg HACCP, Risk based inspections,
    safe handling instructions, Salmonella
    enteritidis risk assessment
  • FDA Produce initiative Good agricultural
    practices Sprouts sample irrigation
    water, Juice/seafood HACCP

26
What have we done?
  • DHSS/LPHAs Increased capacity, HACCP, Risk
    based inspections, 1999 food
    code no bare hand contact- ill
    employee policies

27
HACCP
  • A way to look at food safety, focuses on food
    process not facility requirements
  • Looks at what can go wrong and prevents it
  • Involves critical limits, corrective actions and
    record keeping
  • I have seen the results first hand

28
Do regulations cover transportation?
  • Yes, and we have discovered problems
  • There have also been problems at the producer,
    supermarket, restaurant and in home levels too

29
Food Recalls are increasing
  • Does that mean
  • The system is broken?
  • The system is working?

30
Why are there more recalls
  • We eat more food
  • Better surveillance
  • We look for more things
  • The food industry has changed
  • More risk advert companies

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Foodborne illness surveillance
  • Our capacity has increased greatly
  • Lab detection capabilities
  • Computer tracking and matching
  • We might have not found the peanut butter 10
    years ago

32
Number one reason for recalls
  • Undeclared allergens
  • Not the same as intolerances
  • Involve the immune system
  • Can be life threatening
  • Were largely ignored 30
    years ago

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The food industry has changed
  • 80 of the nations lettuce comes from the Salinas
    Valley in California
  • Large food processing plants can assemble
    ingredients from all over the country and then
    distribute finished product just as widely

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With our litigious society
  • Companies want to avoid the risk of being sued
  • Sometimes they throw away food we would let them
    keep after a transportation accident
  • More likely to recall product

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What we can do
  • Be aware
  • Know about recalls
  • Take recalls seriously
  • Dont eat food involved in a recall
  • Practice safe food handling practices
  • Check temperatures
  • Dont cross contaminate

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We want to avoid
  • Fear
  • Panic
  • Alarmism

37
We want to promote
  • Confidence
  • Vigilance
  • Personal responsibility

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Where to get Recall information
  • http//www.recalls.gov/food.html

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The risk of not eating
  • Far exceeds the risk of eating
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