Food Safety Quotes

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

One of the trends we're seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it's grown and what's in it.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].