The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major
overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years,
proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food
manufacturers.
The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks — caused by everything from leafy greens to canteloupes to peanut butter — rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fda-begins-implementing-sweeping-food-safety-law/2013/01/04/b58780b8-567c-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html
The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks — caused by everything from leafy greens to canteloupes to peanut butter — rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fda-begins-implementing-sweeping-food-safety-law/2013/01/04/b58780b8-567c-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html
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