Terrorism Spurs Renewed Call for Single Food Safety Agency
Major food organizations and government officials present their views on whether all food regulatory power should be placed in a single agency to enhance safety and security of the food supply.
As he has in the past two Congresses, Senator Dick Durbin on October 4 introduced legislation—the Safe Food Act of 2001 (S. 1501)—to consolidate all federal food safety responsibilities into a single, independent agency, saying that this has taken on new urgency because of a possibly heightened need to respond quickly and effectively to any acts of bioterrorism or agroterrorism. Subsequently, on October 10, he chaired a Senate Governmental Affairs Oversight Subcommittee hearing entitled “Federal…
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