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America is importing more and more of its food. Since the 1980s, food imports have more than doubled, but safety inspections at our borders have fallen. For instance, inspections of fruit and vegetable have been cut from 8 percent to less than 2 percent of shipments. As a result, we face a growing number of disease outbreaks from imported food.
"[W]e’ve got a lot of fruits and vegetables imported from countries where we’re warned not to eat them [raw] or to drink the water. The question is, why is it safe to eat when its imported?"
-- Caroline Smith DeWaal, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Factsheet: The World Trade Organization and Food Safety
Poisoned Workers/Poisoned Fields
WTO Panel Decision on EU-US Beef Hormone Dispute
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