Posts Tagged ‘ food safety ’

Government Audit of FDA Food Oversight Not Pretty

July 26th, 2011. By Hunter West

The Obama Administration has tried to beef up the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration). Give it more authority, and more autonomy.

But it’s too little, too late. And the law that the President signed in January, giving the FDA the power to mandate food recalls (it didn’t in the past???) has yet to be implemented and can’t be enforced until they figure out how.

Sorry, but I always thought the FDA was the prescription drug police, the overseer of our food chain and the watchdog over medical devices. Cross that watchdog and look out. Pushing the envelope and dissing the regulator might get you a warning if you’re lucky. Chances are, if you’re a pharmaceutical company, or a food supplier and you screw up—you WILL find yourself in the FDA slammer.

In our dreams…

It comes as no surprise that a recent government review of serious food recalls reveals that the FDA is dropping the ball on its responsibility for protecting the nation’s food supply.

And in so doing, protecting us. 

According to a CNN report last week, the Department of Health and Human Safety Services (HHS) reviewed 17 Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: FDA, FDA Authority, FDA Recall, food safety, Government FDA Audit
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Flies, Frogs or Rodent Hair in food? Here’s what to do…

September 4th, 2009. By AbiK

The recent news of frog (toad?) remains in Fred DeNegri’s Diet Pepsi sounded less than appetizing. But I imagine “alarming” would be the more appropriate word for it if you were sitting in Fred’s shoes sipping back that fizz-laden refresher and…WHAM! Frog in your face!

Most of us (ok, me) would’ve hurled the can across the lawn and screamed a few high-pitched obscenities. But, let’s step back a moment—just what are you supposed to do? Who do you call? How do you call Pepsi (or its bottler) to task? The DeNegri’s had enough sense to do the right thing, but many of us don’t.

Here’s a little primer on “who you gonna call?” when something’s in your food or drink that shouldn’t be… Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: FDA, food safety, Pepsi
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