With the recall of so many pet food brands during the wheat-gluten scare, it gave me time to think a little bit about product liability. Is it too much to ask as consumer for businesses to properly check their sources and conditions before shipping its products to grocers? It seems that slipshod work is acceptable and that it’s only a requirement to take responsibility after something bad has already happened. The results weren’t only health hazards to pets but to humans too as other brands of food were found to contain salmonella contamination. Beloved pets were killed in the process all because companies didn’t take proper responsibility in checking the manufacturing of their products.
Due care should be an essential to any product that businesses produce. Companies should not produce products that harm because they are wrong in doing so. Stricter regulations need to be imposed on business that deal with health and food since these are essential to people and pets. Even well known companies can have slips like the recent recall of Listerine mouth wash for children that was found to contain microorganisms. If companies like this don’t take priority in their products, they will lose customer loyalty as well as their good name.
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