Politico Takes President Obama and Congress to Task over Food Safety Reform

By failing to adequately fund and implement the Food Safety Modernization
Act (FSMA), the “Obama administration and Congress have
all but squandered an opportunity to give the anemic Food and Drug
Administration, which is responsible for the safety of 80 percent of the
nation’s food supply, a level of oversight the public long assumed it had,”
according to a July 14, 2015, Politico investigation. The lengthy article
details various delays in implementing the law and serious outbreaks of
foodborne illnesses that might have been prevented had FDA been given
the financial resources for inspections and other food-safety initiatives.

Issue 572