« back to encyclopedia search resultsContaminated Foods
Food made impure by contact with pollutants or taints - so unfit for human consumption.
However food is regulated, there is always room for concern.
Figures from the U.S.A. are easier to obtain - even if some of them are rather old. About 65% of all U.S. food imports enter the country through the port of New York; and in 1968, over 2