Did you see the folks from the Consumer Product Safety Commission testify in front of the Senate oversight committee on Thursday?

The problem is obvious - NO LEADERSHIP!!!!!

At the hearing in June, FDA admitted that 7 million of the 10 million increase in their budgets went to BONUSES for employees!

One of our founding fathers said that our Constitutional Republic will last only until those in power realize they can vote themselves a bonus (or something like that)

vote Ron Paul 2008 and we can begin to heal our country–it is our only hope!

DITTO ANON: How about NO FOOD TRADE FROM CHINA, let us empower the U.S farmers again and RETAIN and MAINTAIN our own food sources as it should be. Stop the stupidity and the hiding of real issues and bring the MONEY and PROFIT HOME! And lastly but not least, Stop supplementing animal feed and human food with poisons of unknown origin from our own and other countries.

BOYCOTT. THIS IS ALL ABOUT MONEY.

Have ANY penalties been imposed on the companies responsible for the PET FOOD RECALL of 2007?

There’s nothing in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act which prevents the FDA from ordering recalls. They have broad police powers to enforce the Act, make arrests, condemn adulterated products, etc.. Anything the FDA isn’t doing is because it doesn’t want to do it, not because it can’t.

Forget these silly hot air conventions and order a grand jury investigation that will turn the FDA inside out.

With 9,000,000 shipments per year, it would take about 1,000 inspectors to check each and every one.

At $50K per year, per inspector, it would cost $50 million per year to hire enough inspectors to check every shipment that comes into the US.

The FDA’s budget is $2 billion per year. Hiring enough inspectors to do the job right would come to 2.5% of the FDA’s budget.

Here’s a simple solution:

Fire the top highest paid personnel at the FDA, you know, the managers who aren’t getting the job done. Then put the next 5% in charge at their current salaries and hire enough people to do the job right. Do this every 6 months until those feeding at the public trough are motivated enough to give us what we’re paying for.

Inspecting, coordinating, meeting, reviewing, compiling, reconciling, investigating . . . these things just don’t seem to be working very well.

That’s because they’re all STALL TACTICS while behind the scenes, it business as usual.

How about a little JAIL TIME for Steve Miller (Chem-Nutra) and Paul Henderson (Menu Foods)? How about some hefty FINES for dealing in adulterated products? How about a few locks on the doors of these companies?

Have ANY penalties been imposed on the companies responsible for the PET FOOD RECALL of 2007?

How about the FDA/USDA getting serious for a change?