Category Archives: Food Safety
The market was “an effective enforcement tool” in dealing with Peanut Corporation of America? What!?
Only the Wall Street Journal would carry an op-ed that suggests the market was effective in enforcing our food safety laws: For any business thinking of cheating on quality to save a few bucks, here are some famous last words: Peanut Corporation of America. Since the peanut butter-salmonella scandal was traced to PCA last month, [...]
Could the FDA have any less power?
One has to wonder… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks access to food safety tests that could have helped identify problems at a peanut plant at the center of one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, members of Congress said on Thursday. The salmonella outbreak traced to a Peanut [...]
