Making the world safe for cookie dough
| July 7, 2009 | 3:24 PM
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Not long after Nestle Toll House cookie dough was pulled off grocers’ shelves in response to an E. coli outbreak, the Obama administration rolled out a plan Tuesday to give food safety a boost.
The plan’s elements include:
- Tougher rules to prevent salmonella contamination in eggs and poultry
- Creating a new post of deputy food commissioner for safety, who “will be empowered to restructure and revitalize FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) activities and work with FSIS (Food Safety and Inspection Service), and other agencies, in developing a new food safety system”
- New guidelines for protecting produce from contamination
- Developing a product tracking system to make it easier to detect the origins of possible contamination
Beef producers, too, will be under greater scrutiny in this new plan, which hopefully can reduce or prevent mass recalls such as the recent one tied to the JBS Swift plant in Greeley.
For more information, see the President’s Food Safety Working Group.
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