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FOOD DISTRIBUTORS & FOOD CONTAMINATION

Food-makers are not the only ones contributing to food-borne contamination. Food going to restaurants and supermarkets is SUPPOSED to be kept refrigerated but may end up being left for hours on loading docks waiting for pickup and delivery!

A hidden camera investigation even showed that too many shipments of perishable foods destined for restaurants and food stores may be distributed by trucks with no refrigeration! Eggs, beef and poultry shipments were caught on camera being mishandled, left out on loading docks exposed to flies and even dripping blood!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CBS-TV 48 HOURS 7/10/97

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