Food safety is a given, when a consumer purchases food they expect it to be safe and fit to eat. The responsibility for ensuring food is safe to eat rests with the farmer (sometimes called the primary producer), the manufacturer or processor (if the food is prepared in a factory), the distributor and wholesaler (the people responsible for transfering the food from the manufacturer to the shop or to the door in the case of direct sales or mail order), the retailer and the consumer themselves.
Anglian Water instructed more than 200,000 people in Northamptonshire to boil tap water before drinking it because traces of Cryptosporidium were found. Cryptosporidium can cause sickness and diarrhoea and the scare has closed 17 schools.
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