Beef up the FDA ; Agency is overwhelmed and understaffed
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › June 30, 2009
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THE Food and Drug Administration oversees about 80 percent of the nation's food supply. Yet the federal agency has been woefully hampered in its mission by understaffing and underfunding.
Here's just one example: In 2007, FDA inspectors checked less than 1 percent of 7.6 million fresh produce imports.See the full content of this document
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Beef up the FDA ; Agency is overwhelmed and understaffed
The FDA's job has grown more complicated and bigger as food production -- along with every other kind of manufacturing -- has gone g...
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