Long road from farm to fork worsens food outbreaks

Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- The recent listeria outbreak from cantaloupe shows that large-scale occurrences of serious illnesses linked to tainted food have grown more common over the years, partly because much of what we eat takes a long and winding road from farm to fork.

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