Blog Entry 1

           The Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A) helps ensure that America's food supplies are safe from contamination . The Food and Drug Administration plays a significant role in protecting food from viral , bacterial and chemical contamination all throughout the nation . The F.D.A. is always working on methods to learn how contamination occurs and how it can be prevented . The F.D.A. has 625 investigators working in 20 different offices across the country who are constantly inspecting if our food supply and food companies are keeping our food safe . Just imagine if the Food and Drug Administration never existed !
              The Food and Drug Administration not only helps with food safety , but it also educates consumers to ensure that the food they eat is safe . The F.D.A educates consumers when it comes to cooking food on appropriate temperatures , keeping it refrigerated and how raw meat , seafood and poultry should be handled . The F.D.A. does not only working alone . It works closely with federal , state , and local agencies , private companies , and consumers to make the food even safer. The F.D.A. even works on the borders of our nation to ensure that any imported food is safe from any hazardous contamination . 
         Its significant to know that the Food and Drug Administration does everything possible to prevent food contamination but even so , contaminated food is still found within the borders of our country . Just look at the incidents in many fast food restaurants for example , such as the incident in New Jersey in 1974 where salmonella was found in unpasteurized apple cider causing at least 200 illnesses. Even in  2010 , 500 millions eggs had to be recalled after dangerous levels of salmonella were detected in the eggs of two Iowa producers , Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farm . Nearly 2,000 illnesses were reported within 14 states. Its may not be that the Food and Drug Administration aren't fully enforcing these policies or it can be that there should be more strict policies that should be enforced .
               As a consumer , i am extremely concerned about the things i am eating and if there are killing me inside rather than supplying me with energy . The Food and Drug Administration cant be all over the nation picking at every food at the same time , even for them its impossible . It is our right and duty as consumers to ensure that what we are eating is not killing us . As consumers we should put in our part to help prevent food contamination.