Pet food to peanut butter
Lawmakers upbraid FDA for food safety failings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders on Wednesday threatened to make sweeping changes to the Bush administration's food safety system in light of fresh concerns over contaminated pet food.
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A key U.S. House leader said she might "zero out" the salaries of some Food and Drug Administration officials on because of recent food safety failings that have included bagged spinach and peanut butter. And in the Senate, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee called for a comprehensive audit of the U.S. food safety system "to determine how to remedy breakdowns in the system."
The Agriculture Department and the FDA oversee much of the food production and processing network in the United States. But some lawmakers say one agency should be given control of food enforcement.
Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro (news, bio, voting record), whose House Appropriations subcommittee has jurisdiction over FDA, said her panel may cut off salaries for directors of some FDA centers and offices unless there is rapid improvement.
DeLauro said "it has become all too clear that a lack of commitment for management" was a factor in FDA's "disjointed food and drug safety system."
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