Bush administration releases progress reports on food safety plans

摘要

Hire 130 employees to conduct food field exams, inspections and sample collection... Issue a notice soliciting input on possible changes to food safety guidelines for leafy greens and melons and another notice updating Good Agricultural Practices. .. Issue a final rule on requirements for preventing Salmonella in shell eggs during production. If you were looking for a six-month progress report on the FDA's Food Protection Plan, here you go. Those are just three of the 25 items still on the federal agency's to-do list released on Thursday. By comparison, the agency lists 34 items that it says it has taken care of, including: a review of aquaculture drug residue control procedures at 13 Chinese firms and a three-year plan for increasing state inspectors.