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The main award goes to China for the sheer number of melamine-tainted products it manufactured and distributed, and if it was up to me to distribute real food awards (an institution that is sorely needed, IMHO), they'd be the recipients of quite a few more. I sincerely hope China will learn the many, many food safety lessons and review the entirety of their food production lines in a clear and verifiable manner if they want to entice the rest of the world with their foodstuffs. For now, I'm not advocating anyone to purchase any edibles made in China. It will change in due course.
China is not alone in my books. Case in point: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that last year 76 million Americans were struck by food-borne illnesses, and more than 300,000 were hospitalized. Sadly about 5,000 each year succumb to microbial infections.
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