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Food Safety: Oversight and Current Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Nov. 8, 2007
Report Number RS22734
Report Type Report
Authors Geoffrey S. Becker, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

A series of widely publicized food safety problems, including concerns about adulterated pet food ingredients and farmed seafood from China, illnesses linked to E. coli O157:H7 on leafy produce from California and in meat products, and a national recall of peanut butter due to Salmonella contamination, have made food safety an issue in the 110th Congress. Oversight hearings are underway, and various bills have been proposed to alter the current food safety system and/or increase spending.