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Survey Focuses on FDA Food Safety Oversight

A poll taken in Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio shows overwhelming support for measures that would give the Food and Drug Administration new authority to ensure the food Americans eat does not make them sick. The poll was commissioned by the Pew Health Group and conducted in October.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms millions of food-related illnesses annually with hundreds of thousands of people hospitalized and thousands dying as a result. Shelley Hearne, managing director of the Pew Health Group, says the FDA, which is responsible for the safety of over 80% of the foods we eat, does not have the fundamental tools or resources it needs to sufficiently protect the public from dangers in the food supply.