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Gilbert Gutknecht: “I mentioned this earlier. The Food and Drug Administration does keep pretty good records, and we know that thousands of…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2002
I mentioned this earlier. The Food and Drug Administration does keep pretty good records, and we know that thousands of people have become ill and died as a result of eating imported foods that were contaminated with some kinds of food-borne pathogens. As best we know, with the latest numbers we have over the last 10 years, the number of people who have died as a result of taking a legal drug imported from an industrialized country, that number is zero.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the safety of imported foods versus legal drugs during a floor speech.

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