Mark Bittman has a scathing op ed about Food Safety today. Well
worth the read.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...se-numbers/?hp

(snip)
If we needed further evidence that the party of “family values” only
values wealthy families, we have it now; when these guys say “women
and children first,” they mean “first to throw overboard.”

The House’s reactionary majority wants to dismantle two aspects of the
Federal system that serve the majority of us not perfectly but
decently: the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), one of the
most effective of all social welfare programs, and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), among whose jobs is the increasingly difficult
one of protecting us from the kind of outbreak of E. coli that just
killed at least 39 people in Germany, gravely — perhaps mortally —
sickened another 800 and gave another couple thousand a few of those
days none of us ever wants.