Joe Pitts: “Like many of my colleagues, I believe we need to extend funding for this program in some fashion.”

This seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

The time of 10 o'clock having arrived, I will call this subcommittee meeting to order.

Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked…