Obama Puts Teeth in Food Safety

Sometimes the President was Able to Get a Bipartisan Result by Shaming the GOP into Compliance with What was Obviously a Centrist Reform

Stephen C. Rose
S. 510: Food Safety Modernization Act - the basics - Eatocracy - CNN.com Blogs: "The FDA would have the authority to issue direct recalls of foods that are suspected to be tainted, rather than relying on individual producers to voluntarily issue recalls."

The President put teeth into food safety
No more concealing dangers hiding faults
The rules are there for all to see
Not stored unwritten in unheeded vaults

Click the link above for an itemization of all the elements of the new food safety act and reflect that you may never have read about this before - another of the President's largely unsung reforms - the fourth in this series.

Obama Puts Teeth in Food Safety - Quatrain


Published by Stephen C. Rose

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