Health risks with imported food (letter)*

Sir,How safe is our imported food?According to the Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers’ Federation, AusVeg, we now import over $100 million worth of vegetables into Australia each year, with the majority of this coming from Asia.Yet, these are the same countries whose products have been tested and found to be contaminated with E. coli, or in other words, have been in direct contact with human or animal faeces.Who is policing the imports? Who is looking out for the public health of Austr…

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