Obama's Food Safety Working Group releases progress report on food safety

摘要

The Obama administration patted itself on the back Wednesday with a new report that both lists the accomplishments over the past three years of its Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) and identifies the group's top priorities for the coming year.Released just minutes before a short media call that served as more of a pep rally, The Federal Food Safety Working Group Progress Report (www.whitehouse . gov/sites/default/files/fswg_reportJinal. pdf), a 31-page document, summarizes for stakeholders a host of activities that have taken place at government agencies over the past three years related to detecting foodborne pathogens, enhancing surveillance, responding to food safety problems, improving food safety at the retail level and educating consumers