Memoirs of a Health Inspector: True Stories

When people buy food from supermarkets and restaurants, they do so without much concern for their safety. There are laws, after all, that exist to keep consumers protected from foodborne illness. If they give any thought to it, they assume the inspections that help enforce those laws are routine and uneventful.

On that last point, they would be mistaken.

Memoirs of a Health Inspector recounts the adventures of Bruce D. Lundgren, who worked in food safety for thirty-three years. Lundgren inter...