1、Jean M. Rawson ( Specialist in Agricultural Policy, Environment and Natural Resources1Division) covers USDAs food safety programs, and compiled and wrote this report. Donna U.Vogt (Analyst in Science Policy, Science, Technology and Medicine Division) covers DHHSsfood safety programs (in FDA and CDC)
2、 and provided information on those agencies for thisreport.The primary source of the information in this report is Food Safety and Quality: Who Does2What in the Federal Government, U.S. General Accounting Office, RCED-91-19A-19B,December 1990. Agency officials provided updated data for FDA, FSIS, EP
3、A, and NMFS.U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Fact Book, 1996.3Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web98-91 ENRFebruary 5, 1998Food Safety Agencies and Authorities: A PrimerJean M. Rawson Donna U. Vogt1Summary Several federa
4、l agencies, in cooperation with state governments, are responsiblefor regulating the safety of the U.S. food supply. In the wake of an outbreak of food-borne illness and the largest recall of suspected contaminated meat in U.S. history inAugust 1997, several policymakers have reopened the debate on
