FDA Failing on Food Safety, Needs Money
As the Food and Drug Administration continues its investigation on the source of salmonella-tainted tomatoes that have sickened 228 people across the U.S., a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday noted that the FDA has failed to implement a November 2007 food protection plan designed to stop such outbreaks before they begin. Key senators had actually pushed to fund the plan, but the FDA was initially unresponsive.
The same month that the food safety plan was released, the FDA's Science Board concluded that … more…
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Joaquin Sapien was a reporter for The Center for Public Integrity from 2005 until earlier this year. He was the lead reporter on a year-long investigative project on “Superfund’s Toxic Legacy,” which just received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in non-deadline online independent reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining CPI he wrote for Environmental Media Services.
