Safety of Imported Foods

摘要

Melamine in pet food, Salmonella Saintpaul in peppers, diethylene glycol in toothpaste, chloramphenicol in fish! Recent press accounts have raised numerous questions about the safety of imported foods and who is responsible for monitoring and testingimports for safety. Recently (May 2009), several groups at the University of Wisconsin, including the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), the College of Engineering, and the Food Research Institute, cosponsored a meeting on Food Import Safety. Speakers from university, industry, and government addressed the complex regulatory, economic, scientific, and industrial quality-control issues related to safety of food imports. (More information about the conference, including some of the presentations, is available at: http://wage. wisc.edu/events/7l D=527).