Groups Urge Food Safety Overhaul
Health advocacy groups released a report Wednesday urging President Obama to create a new food safety agency. According to the report, released jointly by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation should create a Food Safety Administration and double food program funding over the next five years. Criticism of the Food and Drug Administration has grown rapidly following a salmonella outbreak that has claimed nine lives and sickened nearly 700 people.


