New food safety documentary on Netflix covering the major food scares in the USA over the last 30 years or so – Poisoned: the dirty truth about your food.

Much of this will be familiar to those who closely follow international food safety headlines – the Jack in the Box E.coli scandal; Camplobacter; Salmonella in chicken; contaminated peanuts etc – but there are some interesting subtleties. Lots of claims about the USA having the safest food system in the world, whilst highlighting inconsistencies in the way they system is set up to regulate that.

If you want to get a comparison of how the US compares to our own practices, this is a good summary.