Is Americas Food Supply Safe?

According to Dr. David Acheson, Assistant commissioner for Food Protection Food and Drug Administration, “Americans have one of the safest food supplies in the world”. This passage states how hard the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) works to make sure that America’s food is safe and prevented from any unsafe distribution of food.

In this passage the author’s most important idea is to ensure American’s that the FDA is more than dedicated to inspect our food supply so that it is the safest food no matter where it comes from. This passage talks about how the FDA works hard every day to ensure that Americas food is edible and that it prevents the consumer from getting sick.

One idea in this passage that I feel is especially significant is that we have six hundred and twenty-five investigators working out of twenty different offices all across the country who are dedicated to inspecting our food.  I find this idea extremely significant because considering that this is very important, we have proof that these investigators do inspect our food to see how well, how clean and healthy the food is. The proof we have is the sanitary inspection letter grade that we see once we walk into any fast food restaurant. This ensures us of how clean and edible the food supply we will purchase from that place is. Depending on the letter grade we as costumers have the option to stay or simply walk out.

In conclusion, this passage gives us the simple understanding of how and why the FDA works so hard.  The FDA works to protect food from bacterial, viral and chemical contamination. This prevents the consumers of the product from getting a stomach disease. This passage “Is America’s Food Supply Safe”?    Enlightens us with us with great information about how Americans have one of the safest food supplies in the world.