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It's pretty clear that the FDA is a troubled organization. The Food and Drug Administration is chronically under funded and has staffing problems, but does that mean that it should be split into two separate organizations?
According to The Packer.com, one Congressman thinks it should be. Apparently Representative Rosa De Lauro of Connecticut is planning on calling for the split. She wants to create a Food Safety Administration that would be part of the Department of Health and Human Services. That would leave the drug and cosmetic oversight functions in their own organization.
Though a shake up might not hurt, I'm not sure that folding food safety into DHHS would do much to help. The FDA can't possibly keep up with its responsibilities because it is so underfunded. If that problem could be fixed, then maybe the FDA, as it stands now, could do the job of protecting our food.
