date:Feb 27, 2019
The FDAs Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb and Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas are announcing a new strategy to modernizing government oversight of imported food. This country imports about 15% of its food supply from more than 200 countries or territories around the world. Other countries supply 32% of our fresh vegetables, 55% of fresh fruit, and 94% of our seafood.
And there have been quite a few food poisoning outbreaks linked to imported food in the past few years. Last year, a Salmonella