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The GAO, or Government Accountability Office for the acronym challenged, has been asked by Sens. Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer to do a study on weaknesses in the current food safety system, Robert Guenther of United told me today. Meanwhile, thoughts of how Congress is looking at reform food safety responsibilities are forming along two lines. One, Guenther said, is a massive overhaul of the current system and creation of a new single food agency. The second is more targeted and will consider a "produce-only" food safety approach.
I think the question of whether either of those approaches is viable remains wide open, but Congress apparently will be holding oversight hearings on food safety early and often in the coming months.
Labels: FDA, Robert Guenther
posted by Tom Karst @ 3:21 PM
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Certainly the pressure is on for produce to show it can have the safest product possible. Luckily it hasn't reached the fevered pitch that was evident when the Food and Drug Administration was first formed. That came in the wake of terrible meat processing scandals and Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle.
But time -- and politics -- will tell if there are major changes to the nation's food safety agencies as a result of the produce scares.
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