Change

“Change” has to be one of the scariest words in the English language. The very word itself evokes a shudder down most people’s spines. But change is exactly what is needed in regards to the current Food and Drug Administration. It has become pretty obvious over the last several months with all the different food safety issues and tragedies that something has to change, and it needs to change sooner rather than later. Most everyone is in agreement with this statement, but when it comes right down to how and where the change will take place, people start to bristle. A new bill introduced in the House last month would divide the FDA into two separate agencies to oversee food safety and the medical field. And while separating food safety from the main branch of the FDA is in and of itself a good thing great care needs to be taken that the bill is not, as the senior vice president of the United Fresh Produce Association so succinctly stated, a “one size fits all” approach to regulating food safety.