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GAO office says FDA’s hands shouldn’t be tied on food package chemicals

By Coral Beach on November 11, 2022

The Government Accountability Office says the FDA should have the power to ask for and receive information from food companies about food packaging and food production surfaces in relation to chemical contamination.

In a report…

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GAO recommends EPA track use of pesticide information for farmworkers

By Dan Flynn on January 18, 2021

Farmworkers exposed to agricultural pesticides need additional information on how to protect themselves, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Since 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had a Worker Protection Standard (WPS) for …
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GAO delivers 3 recommendations to make CDC better

By Dan Flynn on November 23, 2020

Steve D. Morris is a name many may not recognize, yet he is a major national food safety decision maker. And he just writes letters with many of them addressed to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who…
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GAO report examines how date label confusion contributes to food waste

By Dan Flynn on September 13, 2019

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) wants something done about confusing date labels that contribute to food waste.

GAO recommends the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Serice (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
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GAO tells Rep. DeLauro that agencies need to pick up the pace

By Dan Flynn on April 17, 2018

At the request of Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-CT, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has returned to the problem of managing the risk of arsenic in rice. The GAO is an agency in the…
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U.S. representative wants review of lab meat, cell-cultured food

By Guest Opinion on March 30, 2018

Editor’s note: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, sent the below letter regarding so-called lab meat and other cell-cultured foods to Gene Dodaro, comptroller general of the United States, on March 28.


Dear Mr. Dodaro:

I…
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GAO says USDA needs to tighten up policies at certain labs

By News Desk on November 2, 2017

A federal review of laboratories handling many of the most dangerous pathogens on the planet, including some that can be foodborne such as Brucella and bacterium that cause botulism poisoning, shows room for improvement.

The…
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FDA takes 22 days to respond to produce rule questions from the field

By Dan Flynn on November 30, 2016

A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report for a handful of congressional leaders takes up less than five pages, but appear to include a smoking gun for produce regulations that have become too burdensome.
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GAO: FDA could improve tool for assessing imported food risk

By News Desk on June 14, 2016

A computerized tool used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to assess the safety risk of food imported into the United States could be more effective, according to a recent analysis from the U.S.
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Senators Ask GAO to Examine Options for Food Safety Oversight

By Lydia Zuraw on June 24, 2015

papers_406x250Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study whether creating a single food agency would increase efficiencies, reduce costs and…
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