The Obama administration came to Washington pledging to reinstate competence across all areas of government. Among their greatest challenges will be to restore the Food and Drug Administration's tattered reputation. The deservedly maligned agency has repeatedly failed to protect Americans, especially children, from illness and death related to contaminated foods.
Over the last eight years we have seen a kind of "Katrina on your plate," as the inaction of the under-funded and often incompetent FDA and its feckless leadership led...
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