05.16.07
Food Safety
According to the Wall Street Journal, the FDA’s new food safety plan isn’t going over so well. The Department of Health and Human Services (parent agency of the FDA) rejected the FDA’s proposal for increased regulations on food handling. I’d like to see more about this, because it sounds to me like the FDA is only focused on part of the problem.
Handling food safely is an important part of the production of food, but it is only part of the chain of events. No one seems to be looking at the complete picture of where are food comes from and what the ENTIRE sequence of events is from the sun’s energy to our table. I think if we took a more holistic approach to food safety, we, and the FDA, would have better luck fixing the problems.
