August 2007 Issue

In My View – Food Safety—An Industry Responds

We must work to identify risks, while avoiding false and costly security measures.

Robert Louis Stevenson, writing over 100 years ago, noted the numerous but often calmly accepted extreme risks associated with normal day-to-day living, the main one being, as he put it, “the subversive accident that ends it all.” Stevenson: “Think…with what a preparation of spirit we should affront the daily peril of the dinner-table: a deadlier spot than any battle-field in history.…” We are now in a time when a great deal of consumer and government concern is devoted to the “daily peril of the dinner-table.” While the tree fruit industry of the Pacific Northwest is not the direct focus of […]

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