Consumer Group Blames Industry Consolidation for Outbreaks

The consumer advocacy group Safe Tables Our Priority, which grew out of the Jack in the Box E. coli crisis of the mid-nineties, says consolidation in the produce industry — much like that in the meatpacking industry — is to blame for recent outbreaks of pathogens in the food supply.

"There are fewer people now at the beginning of the chain. If a product comes in and is contaminated there, it tends to go into large distribution," says board member Donna Rosenbaum.

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