Brackett flashback

I interviewed Dr. Robert Brackett of the FDA in December 2005 at the agency's Maryland offices, not long after the FDA wrote a letter to the lettuce industry prodding them on commodity specific guidelines. Here is the audio from that interview. It is interesting that toward the end of the interview, Brackett says the food safety question is a problem that is up to the industry to solve. Now, with public meetings held by the FDA on food safety and Congressional deliberations on any number of changes to food safety oversight, it is a problem that - for better or worse - everyone now has a hand in.