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Obama announces plans to overhaul food safety By VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama says the current food safety system in the United States is a "hazard to public health" and needs to be updated. In his weekly address Saturday, March 14, 2009, Mr. Obama announced plans to change the system, starting with his nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. The president has chosen Joshua Sharfstein, the health commissioner in the city of Baltimore, in the eastern state of Maryland, to join her as deputy. Mr. Obama said he is also creating a Food Safety Working Group to advise him on how to upgrade food safety laws and coordinate them throughout the government. He said recent food contamination problems reflect a "troubling trend" that has seen the number of outbreaks more than triple since the early 1990s. He blamed the problem, in part, on underfunding and understaffing at the FDA. He said the lack of resources has left the agency unable to conduct yearly inspections of about 95 percent of food processing plants and warehouses. The president spoke of several recent food contamination problems in the U.S., including a salmonella outbreak from peanut products this past year that killed nine people. He called the incident a "painful reminder" of how "tragic" the consequences can be when government is unable to do its job. Mr. Obama said many of the laws and regulations governing food safety have not been updated for decades. He said officials are investing $1 billion to increase the number of FDA inspectors and modernize food safety labs. This story was posted on 2009-03-14 11:23:17
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