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On the recordFebruary 4, 2009
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 whole drug regime is--why don't you just move that over to the Food Safety Inspection Service?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the structure of food safety regulation at FDA.

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