Politely rephrasing previous question: Do you think the FDA urgently needs to be revamped?
WASHINGTON – Describing government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants as “a hazard to the public health,” President Obama promised Saturday to bolster and reorganize the nation’s fractured food-safety system.
“In the end, food safety is something I take seriously, not just as your president, but as a parent,” Obama said in his weekly address.
The call for fundamental changes in the nation’s food-protection system follows a massive salmonella outbreak in peanut products that has sickened more than 700 people, killed nine — including three Minnesotans — and led to one of the largest recalls in U.S. history.
Obama said he will ask Congress for $1 billion in new funds to add inspectors and modernize laboratories.
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