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Article: Food safety system takes criticism
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 6, 2007
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OMAHA, Neb. -- Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug
Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas -- FDA. But if
there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
Critics of the nation's food safety system say that it is too
fragmented and marked by overlapping authority, and they say that
may help explain why dangerous foods keep slipping through and why
contamination scares are handled in sometimes inconsistent ways.
"One of the underlying problems is the bifurcation of the
regulatory system," said Caroline DeWaal, director of the Center for
Science in the Public Interest's food safety division.
Critics ...