US: Amid salmonella case, food industry seems set to back greater regulation - (The New York Times)
July 31, 2008 – 11:27 pmFood industry leaders set to appear Thursday before a House committee say they will testify about what they view as mistakes in the federal response to the continuing salmonella outbreak as well as fundamental failures in the nations food safety system.
At the same time, however, several food safety experts say, industry leaders are also questioning whether the weak produce-tracking rules that many of them once championed are more a curse than a blessing. As they tally the financial losses from the largest food-borne outbreak of illness in the last decade, produce businesses now show signs of embracing broader regulations for traceability.
Mike Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, was quoted as saying, I think that now the industry is realizing based on this outbreak that we need to have the ability to trace back so we can segregate where the problem is and not […]
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