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Your yogurt, cereal, and spaghetti will soon be safer. In an
effort to decrease the incidence of foodborne illnesses, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in July that it's
applying uniform standards for the state agencies that regulate
food processing, manufacturing, and packing facilities. Given the
recent scares with spinach, lettuce, and other state-policed goods,
the standards committee will start supplying monitoring agencies
with benchmarks for inspection, staff training, laboratory
procedures, and illness and incident investigation. "The FDA will
audit participating states' programs on a recurrent basis," says
Cathy McDermott, an FDA spokeswoman. "These standards are important
because states will now be able to measure their programs against
something to improve them." Pilot testing in New York, Oregon, and
Missouri is scheduled for this fall.
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