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Push For Separate US Food Agency Could Grow From Independent Panel’s ‘Urgent’ Call For Change

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

As latest evidence supporting their preference, lawmakers and other proponents of moving regulation of food manufacturing and marketing out of FDA and into a separate agency will reference report from panel appointed by Reagan-Udall Foundation at FDA Commissioner Robert Califf’s request.

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An independent panel was specific with criticism in its evaluation of the US Food and Drug Administration’s food safety programs, saying “change is both necessary and urgently needed to meet the current and future challenges of food oversight.”

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