Source: Lyndsey Layton, THE WASHINGTON POST, 5/30/11

Budget cuts proposed by House Republicans to the Food and Drug Administration would undermine the agency’s ability to carry out a historic food-safety law passed by Congress just five months ago, food safety advocates say.

The legislation, passed in December, is the first major change to the nation’s food-safety laws since 1938.

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