Separating sales and safety

02-20-2008

Food safety and agriculture promotion and/or sales are mutually exclusive goals; USDA should be stripped of food safety oversight, says lawmaker. Citing beef recall after cow-abuse video at slaughterhouse that supplied school lunch program, Rosa DeLauro, who chairs House panel that oversees USDA funding, calls for single food safety agency.

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