Americans continue to be first line of defense on food safety

Congress is moving this in the right direction, publicizing the stories of those individuals who have been on front line of testing the US food supply. It's amazing to even believe that the politicians who were voted in to serve the public could be so incredibly ignorant, but that's what the GOP Congress was all about.

It is interesting to see Congressman Barton of Texas pointing the finger at China instead of his own party who created this situation. Is China now responsible for US food safety? I'm not excusing the Chinese companies from their share of the blame, but the much bigger problem is the politicized train wreck of an FDA that the Republican congress built. It was not China's fault that salmonella-tainted peanut butter was on the market despite being a known issue. It was not China's fault that e. coli spinach was being sold despite the FDA knowing about the problem for years. Barton and the GOP would love to make this a battle against China but that is only a small side show but the GOP struggles with accepting responsibility on all issues.