Diminished capacity: FDA's role will be focus of Tuesday hearing

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation will meet Tuesday, April 24. The hearing is being called, "Diminished Capacity: Can the FDA Assure the Safety and Security of the Nation's Food Supply?"

No witness list available from the House Web site, but Bill Marler has indicated to me that both industry representatives and consumers (including those touched by E. coli illness) will be represented at the hearing.

Also, Marler has written comments to the subcommittee. Developing...



While on the Web site, I noted the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the Environment and Hazardous Materials will have a hearing about perchlorate on April 25.


Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee will have a hearing on Tuesday, April 24. From the Web site:

A hearing on specialty crops, dairy, sugar, organic production and marketing, and honey. This hearing will be the second in the series on challenges and opportunities facing American agricultural producers.

No witness list yet from the committee Web site.