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Former — and remarkably, even current — “officials and industry professionals used terms like ‘ridiculous,’ ‘broken,’ ‘byzantine,’ and ‘a joke’ to describe the state of food regulation at FDA.”
Guebert: A recent reshuffle inside FDA food safety programs ignited intraoffice turf fights over jurisdiction and authority, again grinding agency gears already slipping after years of neglect and inactivity. Lobbying by Big Food through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) didn’t help, either.
Guebert discusses Helena Bottemiller Evich's April 8 exposé about the Food and Drug Administration's failures in regulating food.