It is good that they are funding new inspectors for overseas, but they haven't begun to grapple with the fact that they need new inspectors for domestic produce and seafood.

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Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.

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Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

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This is not a foolproof system.

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For the industry to step up like this and start the testing program is a very important improvement. But it's critical that USDA ensure that all chicken producers are complying with the same requirements.

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The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

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The U.S. has had fire walls in place to protect the cattle population from getting infected with mad cow disease and there are some gaps in these fire walls.

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You can't have a testing program of this nature where it addresses a public health need and keep the information secret.

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It is far more likely that you will die from a heart attack caused by eating a lot of beef than you would from BSE.

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