Unchecked pollution and bad food ‘killing thousands in UK’

Government's failure to tackle health and safety issues, food poisoning and pollution leading to 'largely avoidable' deaths, says thinktank

Thousands of people are dying each year because of the government's failure to tackle food poisoning, health and safety breaches and pollution, a thinktank is warning.

A new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) claims that lax regulation and weak enforcement are failing to hold businesses in check and are tantamount to state-facilitated "social murder".

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