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Article: Federal agencies to look harder for tainted food
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration and the Department
of Agriculture will step up inspections and craft new guidelines to
reduce outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, a presidential working
group said yesterday.
The measures include more USDA testing at meatpacking plants to
find the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack said.
The FDA issued a rule to help control salmonella contamination of
eggs during production, which could reduce the number of food-borne
illnesses by 80,000 a year, said the secretary of Health and Human
Services, Kathleen Sebelius.
"The food-safety system in our country needs a significant
update," Vice President Joe Biden told ...