$155 Billion Doesn’t Buy Us Safe Food—Should We Start From Scratch?

As it stands now, as The Associated Press noted, “the FDA would be responsible for the safety of a frozen cheese pizza, for example, but USDA takes over part of the duties if the pizza has meat on it.” All of which leaves what critics see as a potentially deadly grey area of lax of missing regulation in between the two agencies. Today, President Obama proposed a solution to the country’s food safety woes—foodborne illnesses alone cost $15.6 billion annually, according to the USDA—in