Matthew wrote a nice blog about the Food Safety Bill, and I like how he supported with the fact that shows how tainted peanut butter products sickened over 20,000 people and killed nine people in 2008. In addition to that:
Food expert Michael Pollan calls this “The best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply." If the legislation does ultimately pass, the remaining question is whether Congress will provide FDA with funding to implement it. This bill will give FDA much more authority when it goes in for an inspection, but it doesn’t provide money to actually do the inspection. Getting additional money from Congress in the current economic climate will be challenging.
Food expert Michael Pollan calls this “The best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply." If the legislation does ultimately pass, the remaining question is whether Congress will provide FDA with funding to implement it. This bill will give FDA much more authority when it goes in for an inspection, but it doesn’t provide money to actually do the inspection. Getting additional money from Congress in the current economic climate will be challenging.
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