FDA Audit Urged

reuters.com — The U.S. Health and Human Services Department should audit the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of state inspection contracts after the salmonella outbreak involving peanuts, a Democratic lawmaker said. The salmonella outbreak traced to the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Blakely, Georgia, has forced one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, sickened 636 people, may have killed nine and brought the FDA under intense scrutiny. Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro, chairwoman of a House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the FDA, said an audit by the department's inspector general was needed to find any problems with the FDA's oversight of other state inspection contracts.

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