Law Practice
Mar. 20, 2007
Food-Safety Oversight: Too Many Cooks
Forum Colum - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - When the decision about which agency should regulate a ham sandwich is determined by the number of bread slices, it's time to put some sanity into food safety laws.
By Jeffrey A. Lowe
About 76 million people contract food-borne illnesses in the United States each year, leading to 5,000 deaths and 325,000 people requiring hospitalization, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those figures owe in large part to a federal food-safety-regulation system that is fragmented, ineffective and inefficient, and which must be cor...
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