Food Safety Gets a Turn in the Overhaul Spotlight

Published On: July 8th, 2009

ecoli In an overhaul unrelated to health reform, the Obama administration pledged to improve the country’s food safety system with sweeping changes designed to prevent outbreaks of food-borne illness instead of responding to them after they occur, according to the WSJ.

Among the aims of the overhaul: to set up a federal “command system” that would respond to outbreaks and develop industry guidelines to help the government track contaminated products. The FDA and USDA are also setting new standards to reduce salmonella and E. coli infections, says the WSJ.

The New York Times describes many of the measures announced yesterday as “more aspirational than actual.”

But, improving food safety has been a goal of federal agencies for years, and the current system is widely criticized as fragmented. The division of labor between the 15 federal agencies that oversee food inspections is “complex and sometimes bizarre,” according to the Washington Post.

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