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Here’s why Trump’s plan to consolidate food safety efforts won’t work

By Timothy D. Lytton on June 25, 2018

Editor’s note: This opinion column was originally published by The Conversation and is republished here with permission.


The Trump administration on June 21 unveiled an ambitious plan to consolidate federal food safety efforts within the…
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Senate Bill Would Send NOAA’s Seafood Inspection Program to Interior

By News Desk on January 3, 2014

In mid-December, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced a bill that would move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its seafood inspections to the U.S. Department of the Interior. More broadly, the act…
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Talk of Food Safety Consolidation Takes Bipartisan Turn

By Helena Bottemiller on March 14, 2012

U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, a conservative Republican from Wyoming, is starting to sound a lot like her colleague Rep. Rose DeLauro, a liberal Democrat from Connecticut — at least when it comes to fixing the…

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Letter From The Editor: Requiem

By Dan Flynn on January 29, 2012

We can go back to talking amongst ourselves about the theory of a single food safety agency in the United States.  But in reality, the idea is now dead.

Let’s review.

On Jan. 13, President…

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Administration ‘Not Confirming’ Food Safety Consolidation

By Dan Flynn on January 26, 2012

The Obama Administration “is not ‘confirming’  food safety consolidation,” the subscription news service The Hagstrom Report now says. The newsletter reports:

“Although Jeff Zients, who is now White House Office of Management and Budget director…

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Letter From The Editor: The First

By Dan Flynn on January 22, 2012

Ten days ago, we kicked over a hornet’s nest by passing on a solid report suggesting the Obama Administration planned to use its newly sought “consolidation authority” to put all federal food safety functions under…

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Single Food Agency a Recipe for Singular Disaster?

By Dr. Richard Raymond on January 16, 2012

Food Safety News Editor Dan Flynn reported on Jan. 14, 2012 that if Congress gives the Obama Administration the authority to consolidate six agencies that deal with international trade into one agency, bringing together the…

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Publisher’s Platform: Department of Food?

By Bill Marler on January 15, 2012

In 2009 I was asked by the editors of the New York Times to join in a discussion at “Room For Debate” about a single food-safety agency and to post a 300- to 400-word position …

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OMB Says Food Agency Merger Is Next

By Dan Flynn on January 14, 2012

A single federal food safety agency, long sought by many advocates, will happen if Congress grants the Obama Administration authority to reorganize the government, according to the subscription news service The Hagstrom Report.

In its…
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Some Tips for the Tea Party

By Phyllis Entis on September 29, 2011

I’ve been challenged to find some policy planks for the Tea Party that would reduce the cost of federal food safety enforcement without putting the public at (greater) risk.

Here are a few thoughts, drawn…

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