Piling on

There is a big Senate Committee meeting scheduled for 3 pm Eastern today on "Food Safety: Current challenges and new ideas to safeguard consumers." While we all expected the new Congress to give attention to the topic of food safety - perhaps even coalescing into discussion of a single food safety agency - no one expected the lame duck Congress to jump on it. The one industry witness today is Robert Whitaker, president of MissionStar Produce of Salinas.