date:Jul 12, 2013
eral grounds, including the omission of food stamps for the poor. It would also have to be reconciled with the Senate's version.
More than 3,000 people in the United States die each year from food-borne illnesses, according to federal data. One in six are sickened and 100,000 hospitalized from illnesses tied to such pathogens as salmonella, E. coli and listeria.
The 2011 food safety law is designed to move the FDA into preventive mode from the reactive mode in which it has operated historicall