Splitting food from FDA could be painful for drugs
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
President Barack Obama has proposed taking the food safety related components of the FDA and merging them with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the Department of Agriculture to form a single new agency.
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