Science Board Recommendations Exceed CFSAN's Capabilities - Acheson
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is not prepared to do some of the consumer research the agency's Science Board recommends, says David Acheson, the agency's former food chief
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