The subcommittee convenes this hearing entitled safety of the u. S. Food supply, and continuing concerns over the food and Drug Administrations food recall process. Disease outbreaks from tainted food are an Ongoing Public Health challenge. The centers for Disease Control estimates that each year one in six americans, 48 Million People get sick from food borne illnesses, and 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The number of multistate food illness outbreaks is increasing, affecting greater numbers of americans and the number of Vulnerable People over and immune compromise individuals is growing. The threat of food borne illness persi persist even though weve gotten better at investigating outbreaks and through the implementation of the hazard analysis and critical control point rules over the last two decades, cdc trend data indicates major reductions in the incidents of food borne disease, yet the problem remains significant. When contaminated food reaches store shelves, the fda i
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Group recommended that cdc develop agencywide policies to provide clear and consistent requirements for biosafety for all agency laboratories. In response, cdc developed a specimen transport policy but has not developed other agencywide policies such as requirements for Laboratory Documentation and emergency protocols. As i stated at the outset the incidents you are examining today are part of a long series of safety lapses. Since 2007 gao has reported on these issues and has made multiple recommendations to improve federal oversight of highcontainment laboratories. The federal departments agreed with our recommendations and have conducted some activities to respond but have not implemented our key recommendation, to establish a single federal entity with responsibility for oversight of all highcontainment laboratories. We recommended the establishment of a single federal entity to, one, conduct governmentwide Strategic Planning for requirements for highcontainment lab rotorys, includi
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