Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help wanted: Large government agency looking for someone, anyone, who can be a team player and make said agency more efficient and accurate when it comes to the details, especially the very minute details that identify salmonella. The FDA is asking Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the Center for Disease Control, and the Department of Agriculture to put their collective “heads” together in order to come up with a better method of testing, one that will shorten the time it takes to accurately identify an outbreak of salmonella. The FDA has been on the hot seat after the last two outbreaks that involved peanut butter and a false accusation of tomatoes, but the latest comment by a congressman comparing the agency’s disease detectives to the Keystone Kops was obviously the push they needed to admit they needed help. The assistant commissioner for food safety says “they’re not looking for a ‘Star Trek’ gizmo, just something that can save 12 hours here, 12 hours there.” I don’t know, but right about now, even help from Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy would seem to be a vast improvement.

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