Westchester Health Tips

Con­tam­i­nat­ed food can cause prob­lems rang­ing from mild up­set stom­ach to death. Ex­perts es­ti­mate that 5,000 Amer­i­cans die from food-​borne ill­ness each year.

Pre­vent­ing food poi­son­ing in the first place, rather than hop­ing to catch con­tam­i­na­tion up­on in­spec­tion, could save thou­sands of lives. As new­ly ap­point­ed FDA head Mar­garet Ham­burg said, “Pre­ven­tion is the key to food safe­ty.