You got your audit in my restaurant business!

The Massachusetts board of Public health deemed many of it's officials unlicesnsed as well as many of its "certified" restaurants to be out of regulation. However the root of this problem is that many of the local food departments are vastly understaffed and underfunded. What the Massachusetts board of public heatlh found most disturbing was the unlicesnsed officials lack of the ability to test for and detect food born illnesses. Meaning a large voulnerability for a terrorist attack, or an outbreak of some diesease and the board fears that 24 serious outbreaks of illness in the past years may have been a result from this. This audit also made note that since 2002, most of local health departments in Massachusetts have been understaffed. For this restaurants, nursing homes and even schools have fallen victim. In an effort to change their ways, the Board of Public Health has already committed to a complete overhaul of the training and certification process as well as working with the state government as well as the federal government to recive aid. In the past, Massachusetts has been in the dark ages with leaving it up to local communities to inspect their own facilities, now it may change to a state wide position.
Although this may not be as serious as incidents in Upton Sinclairs, "The Jungle," it may cause some to recall the early days of U.S. food inspection, or the lack there of. In the year of 1906 with reports of humans falling into the grinders at meat packing plants and production still trucking, and ground up pieces of old cattle in canned food, President Theodore Roosevelt pushed congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act. The Pure Food and Drug act prompted the nation that all food production plants had to undergo routine inspection. It also forbade the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated foods. This act would later clear the path for the Food and Drug Administation (FDA) to take form.