If there had been a HACCP plan in effect at this plant, how confident are you that that would have prevented this salmonella contamination?
I am concerned, Senator, that unless you address this structural problem where Dr. Sundlof is in charge of policy, but you have got someone ...
Well, why not just--since the food component at FDA, and I will ask Dr. Sundlof, maybe he doesn't know, it is a smaller part of FDA than the...
He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.
Right there, now they did not have to report to the FDA the findings of salmonella.
The drug war will not be won on the streets.
Gil Kerlikowske is the right man to address these challenges.
we haven't changed and updated our public health system to cope with this new distribution system.
Surely we can do better than that.
I am nothing short of outraged at the increasing number of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in our country.
These multi-agency Federal local partnerships require cooperation and compromise.
He is a cop's cop and his perspective was shaped controlling the streets in Florida, New York, and Washington State.
we have an obligation, I think, to the American people to really look at the public health structure.
I know I have gone over. I just have one more thing I want to tie down here.
To say that food safety in this country is a patchwork system is just giving it too much credit.
Well, what happened then?
I would like to request that you make those available to this committee.
Food safety in America has too often become a hit or miss gamble.
