The latest board paper on Food Safety for the Foods Standards Agency shows that during the period 2000-2006 food safety did not improve. In fact has been getting worse. The most deadly, literally, issue is E.coli 0157 H7. This bug kills under 5’s and seniors roughly 10% of the time. Those not killed often suffer marginal to total kidney function lose and other issues.
Such food safety failutes cost during 2000-2006 in the UK between £1.4bn. -> £1.7bn annually. If we had all kept food poisening to 2000 levels the country would have cumulatively saved £1bn. avoiding huge levels of suffering for many thousands of people. Many of those victoms will have long term health damage and require ongoing treatments such as dialysis.
How has Southwark performed during this period?
I don’t know but will find out.