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March 17, 2009

Obama Vows to Overhaul Food Safety System
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President Obama has vowed to change fundamentally how the nation handles
food safety issues, saying the current system is a “hazard to public
health.” On Saturday, Obama announced the creation of a Food Safety
Working Group to advise him on which laws and regulations need to be
changed.

President Obama: “This Working Group will bring together cabinet
secretaries and senior officials to advise me on how we can upgrade our
food safety laws for the twenty-first century; foster coordination
throughout our government; and ensure that we are not just designing
laws that will keep the American people safe, but enforcing them."

President Obama has also nominated Margaret Hamburg, a former New York
City health commissioner, to be commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration.



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