Posts tagged with ‘USDA’
The Obama administration’s push for innovation to boost economic competitiveness requires better strategic links between federal agencies and universities.
The salmonella-contaminated peanut outbreak is raising alarm over the U.S.’s fractured food system—a system “organics” and conventional mass-market foods often travel through side-by-side.
Part of the problem behind the recent spread of
Salmonella-infected peanut paste products is a disastrously underfunded FDA.
Milk and meat from cloned animals could be in the U.S. food supply, and the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture can’t detect it, says an FDA official, despite a USDA “voluntary moratorium.” But products from cloned animals may have been in the food supply for a while.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed a rule that cattle too sick to stand should not be turned into hamburgers. The move raises the opportunity to consider broader issues regarding federal food safety structures, which have been under scrutiny since this summer’s outbreak of
salmonella St. Paul, which was eventually traced to imported serrano peppers.
As food worries grow, so does the appeal of a single federal Food Safety Administration to deliver effective oversight of what America eats.
