Obama Improves Food Safety… One Egg at a Time

Elizabeth Petrun / August 03, 2009

It’s no secret that Americans are “dissatisfied with food regulatory standards” in the U.S. In response to plunging numbers, Obama decided to create a “food safety working group” to solve the growing problem. However, simply pumping more money into regulatory agencies will not alleviate the contamination problem completely.

Obama’s food safety group was kind enough to produce a document expressing their “key findings.” In this document the group calls for a “flexible” approach to food safety and then quickly recommends setting more “rigorous standards for food safety,” which quickly clouds their underlying premise of how to handle the situation. We cannot simultaneously increase regulations AND be more flexible… so which is it? (more…)