FDA officials should model the federal enforcement program after states, like Texas, that require food companies to recall products and use other tools not available to the feds yet, says Dan Sowards, food and drug safety officer at the Texas Department of State Health Services.Texas officials used its mandatory recall authority to order the Peanut Corporation of America's Plainview, Texas, plant to recall peanut products before the company went out of business, he told a packed room of about 200 people at a breakout session of the Food Safety Summit, in Washington, D.C., last week.
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