Report: Spoiled – Keeping Tainted Food Off America’s Tables
Perhaps by continuing to post on product failures, I am flogging a dead horse, but once again I have found another report that should be highlighted
Spoiled, Keeping Tainted Food Off America’s Tables (PDF Here) is written by Jessica Milano for the Progressive Policy Institute. She actually works for Competition Policy Associates (COMPASS)
Written from the perspective of an American looking for ways to protect consumers from imported products, Milano focuses primarily on the government agency infrastructure in her report and offers up the following 5 “simple ideas to improve food safety”
- Improve and simplify the regulatory process by creating a single food inspection agency.
- Double resources for food safety by cutting waste.
- Shift to a risk-based allocation of resources.
- Create a stronger recall authority.
- Use the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program to strengthen pointof-entry food inspections.
In coming to these conclusions, she lays out some very compeling evidence and arguments:
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