http://growersandgrocers.net/2007/02/07/food-safety-a-high-risk-federal-program-says-the-gao/ From farm to table, and all the stops along the way. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://growersandgrocers.net/2007/02/07/food-safety-a-high-risk-federal-program-says-the-gao/#comment-8870 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:22:19 +0000 http://growersandgrocers.net/2007/02/07/food-safety-a-high-risk-federal-program-says-the-gao/#comment-8870 [...] Several of the Ethicureans are on hiatus. I’ve been wrapped up in Operation Pork — an extremely complicated two-hog share — along with the ever-more-demanding Digest, so posts have been a little sparse lately. Here’s some choice Ethicurean-related entries from other blogs to tide you over. Weapons of mass digestion: The Government Accounting Office released a report adding food safety to its list of high-risk government programs, but the news “has not received the attention it deserves,” says our new acquaintance Marc. He’s right. In this post, Marc zeros in on key points of the GAO report documenting the fragmented, 15-agency (!) federal food-safety system, in which the USDA receives by far the lion’s share of the money even though the meat and poultry it regulates makes up just 20% of the food supply. Bottom line: A unified food-safety agency would go a long way to cleaning up the mess …as long as it’s not done as haphazardly as Homeland Security was. (Growers and Grocers) Marc also blogs for his own Mental Masala, where he currently has two mini-reviews of a books on major drinks and the history of spices. Check it out. [...] […] Several of the Ethicureans are on hiatus. I’ve been wrapped up in Operation Pork — an extremely complicated two-hog share — along with the ever-more-demanding Digest, so posts have been a little sparse lately. Here’s some choice Ethicurean-related entries from other blogs to tide you over. Weapons of mass digestion: The Government Accounting Office released a report adding food safety to its list of high-risk government programs, but the news “has not received the attention it deserves,” says our new acquaintance Marc. He’s right. In this post, Marc zeros in on key points of the GAO report documenting the fragmented, 15-agency (!) federal food-safety system, in which the USDA receives by far the lion’s share of the money even though the meat and poultry it regulates makes up just 20% of the food supply. Bottom line: A unified food-safety agency would go a long way to cleaning up the mess …as long as it’s not done as haphazardly as Homeland Security was. (Growers and Grocers) Marc also blogs for his own Mental Masala, where he currently has two mini-reviews of a books on major drinks and the history of spices. Check it out. […]

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