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Survey: Most willing to pay more for better ‘food safety’

The Pew Charitable Trust—an organization known for its opposition to modern farming methods—has released results of a new poll on government oversight of food safety.

According to Pew, 66 percent of those surveyed support additional funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to carry out new responsibilities related to food safety.  And 74 percent feel it’s worth a one to three percent increase in the cost of food to pay for new safety measures in the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed into law this year.

In addition, 70 percent of those surveyed favor food companies paying an average annual fee of one-thousand dollars to help cover the cost of new FDA food safety activities.

Twenty-one percent of U.S. adults say they worry “a great deal” about food being contaminated with bacteria that makes it unsafe to eat, while 85 percent say the government should be responsible for ensuring that food is safe to eat.

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