Recently, the local news has talked about numerous health violations at some of the best restaurants in Boston. No one likes to hear about rats running amok at night in restaurants. Yet what are your chances of getting food poisoning at a restaurant?
MarketWatch just posted an intriguing article on this very subject.
The article states there are about 76 million cases of food-borne illness in the U.S. each year. The severity of those cases varies from a mild discomfort to a more serious, life-threatening matter.
Not all of those cases are attributable to restaurants. And of those that are, most are not related to large chain restaurants. Considering 18 major food scares in the last 25 years, only two involved chain trestaurants and one of those was actually the fault of a supplier. Why is this the case?
Because chain restaurants have been instituting very strict protocols to prevent food illnesses. They work very hard to ensure the chain of food, from the farm to their store, maintains proper health safety procedures.
So, though the threat does exist, maybe it is not as significant as people imagine.
2 comments:
Food Poisoning Restaurants are increasing day by day!
I think we should all make a list of Food Poisoning Restaurants on the internet for all to see.
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