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Lawmakers Criticize FDA Plan to Close Half Its Laboratories
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| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jul 17, 2007 12:19pm |
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| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON — A Food and Drug Administration plan to close half its laboratories is an assault on food safety that probably would expose more Americans to harm from unsafe food, lawmakers charged Tuesday.
The FDA's ability to police the nation's food supply has come under withering criticism from Congress amid a string of high-profile cases of foodborne illness, including E. coli-tainted spinach and salmonella-contaminated snack foods. The FDA, meanwhile, says it's streamlining its operations, including through a plan to consolidate the labs where it tests foods.
Members of Congress called that plan misguided and questioned whether it would save money, as FDA has claimed. Worse, they said, is the risk it would harm food safety. |
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