HOW SAFE IS THE FOOD SUPPLY?

摘要

Tainted ingredients in pet food may have shocked most Americans, but not William Hubbard. As a longtime top policy official at the Food & Drug Administration, Hubbard a decade ago spotted two worrisome trends. Food imports were rising dramatically at the same time the FDA's ability to police the food supply was in decline. Agency officials tried to stem the tide, but their plans didn't get funded or passed by Congress. "We've been warning about food safety since the '90s," says Hubbard, who left the agency in 2005. "Now the people at the FDA are frustrated. They have good solutions, but they can't do anything."