A Single Food Safety Agency Is Not the Answer

I am against a single food safety agency. If we could we start over again from scratch, I would probably be in favor of one agency regulating everything. But we are where we are now because of historical accidents and political expediency, and one always needs a path to get to the end of a journey. A path to a single food safety agency is possible, but it is tortuous and distracting and in the end may not be worth the journey.

Although many agencies have food safety roles, some are clearly periph…