Not Even the FDA Trusts the FDA To Regulate Food Safety

Not Even the FDA Trusts the FDA To Regulate Food Safety

• The FDA has effectively thrown up its hands over its most important food-related role.

"Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the agency has sought an external review of its approach to food safety...
..."Even if implemented to absolute perfection"—as I detail in my book, Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable— "the FDA's own best-case scenario is that [two key FSMA rules pertaining to human food] would spur a 2.6% reduction in total annual foodborne illness cases,"

...But FSMA hasn't even achieved that underwhelming improvement.

• I know FSMA stinks. 
• But does the FDA?..."