Re-engineering the United States food safety system.

摘要

The current food safety system is broken, with a patchwork of surveillance systems and over 15 agencies in charge of food safety; this was made clear in February with the Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella contamination. In this article, we describe a new approach to risk management that can potentially support re-engineering the United States food safety system. The model, based on systems theory, departs from the traditional chain-of-events models and uses a systems engineering approach to tackle the problem.