food safety activities because the bills would not amend or change the basic food safety statutes that establish the policies on which the current food safety system is based. For example, the meat and poultry statutes require that a government inspector be in continuous attendance and the food and drug statute grants FDA the authority to act only when adulterated and/or misbranded foods are found in interstate commerce. 

Headed by Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government was established in accordance with P. L.80-162, approved July 7, 1947. It was created by unanimous vote of Congress in July 1947, and submitted a series of reports to Congress. The Lodge-Brown Act, which brought the commission into being, conceived of its mission as being bipartisan. Therefore it had six members from each party. Four Commissioners each were chosen by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and President Truman. The Commission members consisted of Herbert Hoover, Chairman; Dean Acheson, Vice Chair; Arthur S. Flemming; James Forrestal; George H. Mead; George D. Aikin; Joseph P. Kennedy; John L. McClellan; James K. Pollock; Clarence J. Brown; Carter Manasco; and James H. Rowe, Jr.

The commission recommended that all regulatory functions relating to food products be transferred to the Department of Agriculture and that those relating to other products be placed under a reorganized Drug Bureau administered by a public health agency. At the time, four agencies (Federal Security Agency, Federal Trade Commission, the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, and USDA) exercised food regulatory functions, and some manufacturers had to comply with the regulations of more than one federal agency. The commission noted that many regulations related to food were once the responsibility of the