FDA on Feedlots? It looks like the cell cultured meat-inspired debate over how the FDA and the Food Inspection Safety Service (FSIS) should share jurisdiction of food safety may not stop in the laboratory. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut), a longtime critic of the meat and poultry industry, introduced yesterday the Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 2019, which would grant new authority to FDA to investigate livestock feedlots and confinement operations implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks – or as DeLauro’s statement put it, “corporate” feedlots and CAFOs, because: Over the past several decades, consolidation in agriculture has decimated family farms and resulted in large, corporate-own...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
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