Did you use a thermometer to check your chicken pot pie?
An article in the New York Times, titled “Food Companies Are Placing the Onus for Safety on Consumers,” asserts that “increasingly the corporations that supply Americans with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients.” Large corporations such as ConAgra, Nestle, and the Blackstone Group (ie. Swanson and Hungry-Man) “concede that they cannot ensure the safety of items- from frozen vegetables to pizzas- and that they are shifting the burden to the consumer” to heat the product at home to a high enough temperature to kill off any potentially dangerous microbes. The strategy is to put detailed cooking instructions on items such as frozen pot pies, for example, directing the consumer to heat the product to “165°F as measured by a food thermometer in several spots.” Read the whole article here.
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