Experts See Food Safety Legislation Taking Back Seat In New Congress
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Food safety legislation has only a middling chance of passing Congress in 2009, despite persistent concerns about food supply contamination, according to industry experts
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