In the summer of 2009, a Food Safety Working Group established by President Obama recommended a food safety approach based on three principles: prioritizing prevention, strengthening surveillance and enforcement, and improving response and recovery.

Other plans supporting a new food safety system that is focused on preventive controls — not just response — and on holding companies responsible for safety problems have been recently introduced or passed by the House of Representatives (H.R. 2749, H.R.1332, H.R.875), supported by both the Health and Human Services and the USDA, and also backed by various consumer groups and farm-to-table industries.

The Consumers Union is also on record as strongly calling for greater government regulation re. food safety.

Where do you stand on this issue?  Do you think the Federal Gov’t. should be doing more to protect our food supply? Or do you think the Gov’t is interfering with the food industry?