NEW YORK: Food industry: Give FDA new recall power: Grocery lobby registers frustration with FDA power, urges Congress to let Agency force recall - (CNNmoney.com)
February 27, 2008 – 7:56 pmhttp://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/3ad186d0b0b55eda6da775122c98a6dd.htm
New York — With grocery stores pulling tons of tainted meat out of their freezers, Grocery Manufacturers Association Vice President Robert Brackett was cited as urging Congress at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee for Oversight to radically strengthen food regulators’ powers, and he chided both the Bush administration and Congress for not giving the Food and Drug Administration more funding to inspect food safety at company plants, stating, “Because FDA food-related funding has not kept pace with inflation, more than 800 scientists, inspectors and other critical staff have been lost in the past four years.”
The story says that in an unusual move for an industry spokesman, Brackett also urged Congress to give FDA the authority to order a company to recall tainted food if the company does not volunteer.
Currently the agency works with producers to organize voluntary recalls.
The association’s members include ConAgra Foods Inc., Kraft Foods Inc. and […]
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