{"id":121261,"date":"2022-04-19T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/04\/19\/the-fdas-food-failure\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:22:41","slug":"the-fdas-food-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/the-fdas-food-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"The FDA&#8217;s Food Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A POLITICO investigation based on more than 50 interviews finds the FDA is failing to meet American consumers&#8217; expectations on food safety and nutrition.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the time FDA officials figured out it was spinach that was making people sick in 10 states \u2013 sending three people into kidney failure \u2013 it was too late. It was mid-November 2021 and the packaged salad\u2019s short shelf life had passed. There was no recall. By the time FDA officials got inspectors on the ground, spinach season was over. The fields and the production facilities were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/outbreaks-foodborne-illness\/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o157h7-spinach-november-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empty<\/a>, which made it impossible to pinpoint the source of contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever caused the outbreak was likely never fixed.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. It\u2019s been more than 11 years since Congress passed a sweeping food safety law designed to prevent this type of health risk. In that time, FDA has failed to put in place safety standards for the water used to grow fresh produce, as mandated by that law, despite knowing that water is one of the main ways fresh fruits and vegetables become contaminated with deadly pathogens. Congress has ramped up FDA funding over the past decade, but deadly outbreaks keep happening and it often takes the agency too long to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A POLITICO investigation based on more than 50 interviews finds the FDA is failing to meet American consumers&#8217; expectations on food safety and nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":121262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1001,1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The FDA&#039;s Food Failure - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/the-fdas-food-failure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The FDA&#039;s Food Failure - 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