| Food safety standards are constantly changing | | | | However, the problem with this proposal, although |
| and being updated, and so it's extremely | | | | it is a fine one in theory, is that it would involve a |
| important for any food manufacturers or | | | | complete overhaul of the recycling program as it |
| processors to stay up to date on the latest in | | | | stands right now in the Western world. This step |
| rules and regulations. The EDI food safety | | | | towards EDI food safety would be greatly |
| regulations fall into this category, and should be | | | | beneficial, but it will not happen without a great |
| brushed up on by anyone who works in the | | | | deal of time, effort, and money. It's been |
| service industry should be aware of these | | | | wonderful that the recycling system is being so |
| standards. The EDI stands for the estimated daily | | | | widely used in the first place. Now, the challenge |
| intake, which in this case is referring to food | | | | lies in reforming it for even greater benefits to |
| packaging, and in this specifically plastics. Food | | | | society. Steps can be taken to minimize the |
| packaging these days is heavily reliant on plastics, | | | | intake of plastic and contamination in our food, but |
| which can leak out into food and cause a host of | | | | this is the best way to really ensure that these |
| health problems. | | | | contaminants aren't there in the first place. |
| Fortunately there are regulations in place, which | | | | With lobbying and a proven public interest in the |
| any course on EDI food safety will teach you | | | | issue of EDI food safety, it's possible to move |
| about. The government is constantly trying to | | | | this cause forward and lead to overall increases in |
| place new rules and regulations on the use of | | | | health not only for us but for our children and |
| plastics in food packaging, in order to prevent | | | | generations to come. People would most likely be |
| future health problems. This includes the use of | | | | more willing to recycle their plastic in the first |
| recycled plastics, and the proposal to separate | | | | place if they know that their level of |
| non-food related plastic recycling from | | | | contamination is being reduced, making the whole |
| food-related plastic recycling. This would decrease | | | | system much more efficient in the long run. This |
| the incidence of contaminants from entering the | | | | is one of the first and biggest leaps towards the |
| food that we eat, and increase overall levels of | | | | reduction of contaminants in our food. |
| health in the public arena. | | | | |