Help Bring Scientific Integrity Standards to Food Safety

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https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2679

Unsafe food can lead to illness and death, and disproportionately harms the most vulnerable members of our communities. Government agencies, like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are supposed to protect us from these kinds of dangerous food safety outbreaks.

Unfortunately, in a recent survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Iowa State University, hundreds of FDA and USDA employees described a system where corporate interests often stand in the way of government scientists and inspectors’ ability to protect our food supply.

This kind of political and corporate inference in federal science has to stop.

One could use the following link to write a letter is one is so inclined. Thank you.

http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/solutions/agency-specific_solutions/SI-talkingpoints.html