What does it take to bring change in this administration? People died and this team is still giving excuses.
The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.If the Republican-styled FDA wasn't so eager to choose business over people they would have made much better decisions but in the rush to keep cheap food moving they fell back on the only program that Republicans know, which is to allow business to self-regulated. Thanks Newt for launching these programs which are literally killing Americans.
Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents.
Congressional critics and consumer advocates said both episodes show that the agency is incapable of adequately protecting the safety of the food supply.
