Posted on 02/02/2015 1:59:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe.
The proposal in the president’s budget released Monday comes after outbreaks of illnesses linked to chicken, eggs, peanuts and cantaloupe in recent years. More than a dozen federal agencies oversee food safety, and consumer advocates have long called for bringing all those functions together in a single home. […]
The budget proposes consolidating the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and all of FDA’s food safety oversight into one new agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The new agency also would coordinate with state and local health departments, a job that is now mostly handled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the budget proposal, the Obama administration says the current system’s “fractured oversight and disparate regulatory approaches” cause confusion. Consolidation “is an essential step to reforming the federal food safety system overall,” it says. …
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He’ll do for food what he and government are doing for health-care.
Let me guess. Michelle will be in charge and we’ll replicate the diet of North Koreans in less than 5 years.
And suddenly all our favorite snacks are illegal for some reason? Hmm how about NO. Why don’t you go fornicate yourself, DingleBarry?
So then what’s the FDA for?
Fixed it.
Consolidation of government functions to eliminate redundancy and waste, and reducing the number of government staff in the process, is a good thing.
So in concept I can support this if it both reduces government bureaucracy and makes it more efficient.
What I can’t support is it being embedded within HHS. It should properly be within Ag.
Better question, why not consolidate all of the inspection done by the Agriculture department UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, rather than creating yet another agency that simply does the job of other agencies?
Why not? Money, I’m sure. More politically appointed positions that the next president can fill.
Liberals, always the solution ‘more government’ rather than efficient government.
Michele’s school lunches...coming to all restaurants near you!!!
NO, 0bama will have another fed police force and more SWAT teams.
Nothing that ever happens in DC is with an eye to reducing government bureaucracy.
F U B O!
That happens at the individual level, by not fornicating with the food.
/johnny
Bad enough that all of the above are unaccountable executive-branch agencies.
Thats actually what is being proposed: a consolidation of existing functions, which are pretty spread out.
The problem is putting it into HHS. It should be in Ag for a variety of practical and political reasons.
Well, now it comes. The food supply. Will the Duma do anything?
No, none of these should be in the executive department period.
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