Truth About Food Safety FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is on Capitol Hill this week testifying on his agency’s reported inability to move forward on improved food safety goals. The scrutiny has evolved out of a blistering report by Politico on the fact that food takes a back seat versus other agency priorities like medicines. The agency has long spent less on food safety than USDA despite being responsible for a larger share of the food supply. However, the agency and the food industry would do well to remind politicians of some of the truths noted by food safety lawyer Shawn Stevens:
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