Senators 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 improve safety. In January, Durbin and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced bills to establish such
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GAO: FDA Not Keeping Pace With FSMA Foreign Inspection Mandate
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to do more to ensure that its foreign offices are keeping food imported to the U.S. safe, says a report released Friday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). In 2010, GAO studied FDA’s foreign offices and found that they engaged in a variety…
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GAO: Federal Food-Safety Oversight Needs Better Coordination
The federal government could be doing more to achieve the goals of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and other food-safety efforts, according to a 46-page report published Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The amount of food-safety oversight reported by the federal government varies between the…
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Letter from the Editor: IT Risks in the Metadata World
Everybody in Washington, D.C. is running to catch up with the latest dustup over metadata or data mining, or whatever we are supposed to call it. One after another, we seem to have finally entered the twilight zone of scandals. The director of the FBI appears clueless and a high…
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