To mark National Food Safety Education Month—and 30 years since Jack in the Box—Bratager outlined the progress that’s been made and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. In 1993, four children died and hundreds more were hospitalized after eating hamburgers contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 at several Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants. In 2009, the Georgia-based Peanut Corporation of America was shut down after a widespread
Salmonella outbreak linked to its products left nine dead and hundreds more hospitalized.