FDA Was Aware of Dangers To Food

by Actual News Geezer | April 23, 2007 at 03:11 pm

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Sorry, but I'm on a major food safety thing today. Both this story from the Washington Post and the AP item about an overwhelmed FDA (see below) are growing evidence of a public that is growing increasingly restive about food safety.

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.

Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents.

[q
url="http://www.nowpublic.com/u_s_food_safety_strained_by_imports_ap"]Billions
of dollars' worth of foreign ingredients that Americans eat in
everything from salad dressing to ice cream get a pass from overwhelmed
inspectors, despite a rising tide of imports from countries with spotty
records, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal trade and
food data.[/q]

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