Reforming Food Safety: A Model for the Future

Debate about fundamental reform of the nation’s food safety system is often oversimplified and reduced to a debate about whether we should form a single food regulatory agency. I believe that the long-term success of the system requires unification of the existing agencies, but not for abstract “good government” or organizational neatness reasons.

Organizations exist to achieve objectives, and organizational structure, whether in government or elsewhere, should follow function. What do we want th…