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Consumers Union
Consumers Union Calls for Annual Inspection of Food Plants in Wake of Peanut Butter Recalls; Says Obama Call for FDA Review 'Good News' for Consumers
February 21st, 2009
President Obama's call today for a top-to-bottom review of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is good news for consumers, according to Consumers Union (CU), the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. CU said the recall of two years' worth of production from a peanut butter factory in Georgia underlines critical weaknesses in the FDA's inspection and enforcement capacity. CU called on Congress to require FDA to inspect such factories annually. "The FDA is supposed to be a watchdog for consumers, and for too long, this agency has been coming up short," said Jean Halloran, Director of Food Policy Initiatives for Consumers Union. "The FDA has been so severely...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-21)
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