US: Lawmakers seek more food-safety oversight - (USA Today)
December 7, 2007 – 8:16 pmU.S. lawmakers were cited as proposing Wednesday that food-safety laboratories that test some imported foods would be required to submit all test results to federal regulators, whether good or bad.
Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced the Eat Safe Act of 2007, which includes additional funding for food-safety agencies and requires tighter oversight of private labs that test some imported foods.
The labs test imported foods that have had safety problems before and which the Food and Drug Administration won’t allow into the USA unless the importer proves them safe. Typically, importers hire private labs to test the products and those results then go to the FDA.
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