Testimony - Jeff Levi

Here is the link to the testimony by Jeffrey Levi, Executive Director of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), speaking at the House agriculture appropriations subcommittee hearing on the salmonella outbreak yesterday. Not much new here; the FDA is archaic, underfunded and slow to develop a strategic vision matched with resource requests. Here is one excerpt:


Our report finds that Congress has not provided the Food and Drug Administration with a modern, public health mandate to prevent foodborne illness; has not updated the agency’s legal tools to meet the challenges of a high-tech, globalized food supply; nor has it provided the funding stream necessary to carry out research and inspection. At the same time, the agency has not adequately expressed its resource needs as it moves forward with its Food Protection Plan.