Food Safety: Improvements Necessary But Means Debated By Stakeholders
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Food safety oversight in the U.S. would be best achieved by "designating" an existing federal agency as the single coordinating body rather than "creating" a new entity, the Food Marketing Institute told a Senate Government Affairs subcommittee Oct. 10.
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