Public Response to the Contaminated Spinach Recall of 2006

The research described herein was supported by a grant provided to the Rutgers Food Policy Institute by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the National Integrated Food Safety Initiative (NIFSI) grant # 2005-51110-02335 “Food Biosecurity: Modeling the Health, Economic Social, and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintentional Food Contamination,” Dr. William K. Hallman, Principal Investigator. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official positions or policies of the USDA, or of the Food Policy Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.