US: FDA, produce industry talk safety measures for future - (USA Today)
July 7, 2008 – 10:02 pmThe produce industry, which has sustained heavy financial losses in the continuing salmonella outbreak, has made an overture to the federal government in hopes of finding a better way to track down the source of foodborne illnesses.
The Produce Marketing Association in Newark, Del., has sent the Food and Drug Administration a letter requesting a meeting to “figure out how to do this better,” says Kathy Means, the group’s vice president of government relations.
“It’s taking too long to find it, we’re going down too many roads. What do we need to do better, so that when something like this happens again, we’ll be prepared?” she says.
Means says the outbreak has had a strong effect on consumers’ ideas about the safety of eating tomatoes, with one in five saying fresh tomatoes are not safe at all. And despite FDA’s constant message that grape, cherry and tomatoes on the vine are safe, the […]
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