I don’t like year-end reviews.

It’s an artificial creation and food safety happens day-in-day-out.

Sure I’ll engage in some sacrifice on the winter solstice (if Chapman is dumb enough to be around) and dance naked under the setting sun of the summer solstice, but that’s it.

However The Packer’s most-viewed stories list of 2012 seemed particularly apt.

Food safety is about trade. That’s why the Mexico/Florida tomato war was the #1 most viewed story.

But #2-4 were actually about food safety:

• cantaloupe outbreak shakes up industry, leading to California’s new certification push;

• tainted mangoes cause widespread illness; and,

• sprout illnesses force national chains into menu changes and two new alliances.

Good food safety is good business. Apparently it’s a new revelation.