Is Local Food Less Safe?

摘要

THIS past October, our editors at GrowingProduce. com posted a story that speculated that consumers' growing demands for both locally produced and safer foods are in conflict. The story was based on a study by North Carolina State University economist Steve Sexton, who examined the contaminated cantaloupe cases in Colorado last fall and in Indiana this past summer and concluded that retailers' dependence on smaller, local producers may come at the expense of food safety.