Food-borne Illness

Lawmakers seek tougher meat safety requirements

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 9th, 2003

The U.S. government still isn't protecting consumers from contaminated meat a decade after four children died and 700 people were sickened in an E. coli outbreak linked to hamburgers sold by the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain in the West, food safety activists and Democrats say.

"Too many families have tragically lost loved ones to preventable food-borne diseases," said Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, announcing a new effort to pass legislation that would give the Agriculture Department authority to shut down meatpacking plants where inspectors find contaminated meat.

Several similar efforts in recent years have failed, but Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.,...

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