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Article: Debating a single food agency: more bang for our food safety dollars?
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Consolidating all the government agencies that deal with food or food safety would create an agency made from parts of the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control, the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Environmental Protection Agency and bits and pieces from elsewhere.
Senators, representatives, and even the vice president have weighed in on whether the government's food safety functions should be combined into one agency, but turf battles continue to rage about how such an agency should be formed--or if consolidation is even the solution.
"A single food agency would create a critical mass ...