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need regulation of fruits and vegetables;
need to address increasing resistance of pathogens to antimicrobials;
need to address concerns about stress placed on animals during production;
need improved surveillance system;
need better coordination among state, local, and federal food safety programs;
changes detrimental to national food safety program would be privatization of public health labs and too narrow a focus on a risk assessment; and
if no agency has a primary responsibility for food safety, difficult to interest any agency in assisting with and focusing on food safety concerns.
Former Federal Government Food Safety Officials
Michael Taylor, former Deputy Commissioner for Policy of the Food and Drug Administration and Acting Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service at US Department of Agriculture.
the current reactive-based system dates back to beginning of the century;
shifting to science-based, preventive framework is the right track;
for new system to be successful, need to deploy resources in a new way, and to develop preventive strategies on system-wide basis;
current statutory and organization framework are obstacles to success due to fragmented nature of food safety research and misallocation of inspection resources;
need to pursue organizational change due to a present lack of clearly defined responsibility and accountability; and need statutory reform.
Lester Crawford, former Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service
present system is disorganized;
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Specifications in Foods, which involves four departments working effectively together, works well;
USDA conflicts associated with both promoting and regulating agriculture does not work well; and
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