Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 4/6/17


It was an hour and 57 minutes into the confirmation hearing for the next Food and Drug Administration commissioner before Scott Gottlieb drew a question about food. Perhaps to be expected, it came from Sen. Pat Roberts, R-KS, who wanted to know if Gottlieb would favor setting some priorities for enforcement of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and coordinate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture so that changes to nutrition labeling could occur at approximately the same time.

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