Kellogg CEO: Food safety must be strengthened (AP)

Posted by admin on March 19th, 2009 in Medical News

In this 2008 file photograph provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under a magnification of 5000X, this colorized scanning photomicrograph shows numbers of clustered Gram-negative Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria, the type linked to the salmonella outbreak that resulted in the recall of more than 1,500 foods. The head of Kellogg, the world's biggest cereal maker, on Thursday will urge Congress to revamp how the government polices his industry. The Kellogg Co. lost $70 million in the recent salmonella outbreak, after it had to recall millions of packages of peanut butter crackers and cookies. (AP Photo/CDC, Janice Haney Carr, File)AP – It’s not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken.

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