MILWAUKEE — Congress and the Food and Drug Administration should be wary of those calling for more inspections as an answer to the food safety issue, “as this represents a simplistic solution to a complex situation and an expensive approach that cannot work,” said Paul Borawski, executive director and chief strategic officer for the American Society for Quality here, in a statement to Congress this week. ASQ submitted the statement to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, which recently held hearings entitled “Diminished Capacity: Can the FDA Assure the Safety and Security of the Nation’s Food Supply?” Among its recommendations, ASQ said today’s food safety challenges demand less focus on end-item testing and more “push onto the process and as far back into the supply chain as possible.” In addition, “a focus on innovative methods of evaluating the hand-offs further down the chain may yield better food safety results,” ASQ said.
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