Produce Safety & Security International provides follow up for solution to the spinach issue - (World Stock Wire)
April 9, 2008 – 7:07 pmhttp://www.worldstockwire.com/viewpressrelease/prID/404/
Lewisville, TX — Produce Safety & Security International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PRSF) announces that the Company provides a cost-effective proactive solution that could have helped prevent the multi-million dollar loss to the Spinach Industry.
Spinach processing plants received unwanted attention in Congress in early March when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a report criticizing the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for failing to take enforcement actions against facilities cited for repeated problems. A congressional committee reviewed six years of the inspection reports of 167 facilities producing packaged fresh spinach from January 2001 to February 2007.
In nearly half the reports, the spinach plants were cited for “objectionable conditions” such as facility sanitation problems, but none of the problems were referred to FDA enforcement authorities, said the report. The investigation reveals, I fear, a system incapable of preventing another outbreak in fresh produce,” Rep. Waxman said at a congressional hearing. “Some of this […]
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