7-7 news: Obama Administration takes steps to curb pathogens in food supply
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has been directed to develop standards by the end of the year that would reduce Salmonella in poultry products. It is to also improve surveillance and testing in beef-producing plants to reduce E. coli contamination.
The actions were recommended by President Obama’s Food Safety Working Group, created in March after the Salmonella peanut recall. The actions will be further detailed at an event today. The White House issued a statement that read, “The Working Group is recommending a new public health-focused approach to food safety based on three core principles: prioritizing prevention, strengthening surveillance and enforcement and improving response and recovery.”