Obama calls FDA to task
February 3, 2009 by Personal Liberty News Desk
Adding his voice to the growing scandal surrounding a deadly salmonella outbreak, the president has criticized the Food and Drugs Administration for failing to do its job.
Barack Obama talked about the crisis involving tainted peanut butter during an NBC interview on Monday and was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to."
He also said he would order a "complete review" of the agency.
This will go some way towards meeting the demands of many consumer groups and industry associations who have been calling for its overhaul, according to the Washington Post.
"The FDA is supposed to be a watchdog for consumers, and for too long, this agency has been coming up short," Jean Halloran, director of Food Policy Initiatives for Consumers Union, told the AP.
Over the last few years, the authorities had to issue numerous food recalls including contaminated spinach, baby formula, and pet food.
The current salmonella outbreak which killed eight people and sickened more than 500 has resulted in hundreds of food items being recalled.
Officials traced the source of the outbreak to a Georgia peanut plant owned by Peanut Corp. of America.
This group is corrupt at it’s core. I hope and pray Obama goes through it like a dose of salts!!!
Hope and prayer are always good. You are dealing with a politician. His first obligation is to get re-elected. I, too, hope he will do the “right” thing. However, understand that ‘right’ and ‘convenient’ get blurred fast in DC. The ‘right’ thing gets lost in the shuffle, and politicians tend to take care of themselves first (it’s convenient). IF the new pres CARES about America (no reason to believe it yet), he’ll go through the FDA with a figurative scalpel, make real science #1 at the FDA, and rid Congress of money-hungry pigs who know that tons of easy cash go to those who go through the motions of doing the ‘right’ thing, and choose to do that which is ‘convenient’ (especially politically convenient). Pray that this politician has
at least a dollar’s worth of integrity. That would be a true CHANGE of pace in DC.
Let’s see… if DC controls our energy, the air, and our food ????
Sorry I just don’t trust them any more. Sounds like not letting a crises go to waste AGAIN.