Imports now make up about 17 percent of all food eaten in the U.S. However, at best only two percent of it is inspected. That means nearly all of the food imported into this country is physically untouched by inspectors before you buy it.

That raises the question — Are you and your family at risk?

“It’s too low, and we should be inspecting much more,” U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, (D), New York, who sits on the Agricultural Committee, said. “What the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will tell you (is) we need more resources and so when we go to Congress and we say you need to make this a priority, what we’re finding is deaf ears.”

The FDA’s 475 inspectors are no match for the exploding volume of food entering through all U.S. ports including the Buffalo-Canada border. Food imports are up 60 percent in the last decade. Even at the two percent inspection level, tons of food is being intercepted that could have made people sick.