Congress: Too Many Cooks Oversee Food Safety
An increase in food poisoning in schools has some politicians and experts calling for a streamlined system to deal with outbreaks.
School food poisonings increased about 10 percent a year during the 1990s, according to a General Accounting Office report released last week. Fifty school outbreaks made 2,900 people sick across the nation in 1999, the latest year for which data are available. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year, and 5,000 die.
During a joint House-Senate committee hearing April 30, food-poisoning victims, food-safety advocates, and federal lawmakers dissected the current system of dealing with outbreaks that occur when 27 million school meals...
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