WASHINGTON, DC: FDA hit over safety failure - (Baltimore Sun)
June 12, 2008 – 8:29 pmWASHINGTON — As the government struggles to trace another bacterial outbreak, this time in tomatoes, congressional investigators are attacking federal health officials for failing to follow up on recent promises to improve food safety.
Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who will chair a House hearing this morning on the Food and Drug Administration’s food protection plans, was quoted as saying, “It just epitomizes the problem. What has it taken for them to realize it’s a problem? A couple of outbreaks.”
At the hearing, the Government Accountability Office will report that the FDA hasn’t taken steps to begin implementing the food safety plan it issued last November in response to a string of food scares.
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