(Rep. Dem) DeLauro Threatens FDA (Will 'Zero Out' Management's Pay if They Don't Shape Up)

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-delaurofda0425,0,782063.story

An angry Rep. Rosa DeLauro, fed up with what she sees as a Food and Drug Administration reluctant to act quickly and effectively to protect consumers, threatened today to withhold salaries from top FDA officials unless they became more vigilant.

DeLauro, D-3rd District, chairs the House panel that writes the FDA budget, and she said she would "zero out" management pay beginning in the fiscal year that begins Oct .1 if she does not see progress soon.

"There is a pervasive pattern of failure at the FDA," she charged.

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Its officials boast that it oversees products that cost consumers $1 trillion in 2000, but the cost of all FDA services is less than 2 cents per day.

BTW Dr Fosters & Smith announced a recall today of pet food possibly made of tainted rice over a week after wilbur-ellis told all companies that bought their rice to recall. Link: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/general.cfm?N=2001&gid=568

Currently the FDA has no ability to order recalls for anything but baby formula. Everything else depends on corporations putting consumers ahead of their profits.

Oops! Got the Hartford Courant article from PetConnection's Pet Food Recall Blog here:
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/25/pet-food-recall-waiting-for-recalls/

[ClassWarrior]

1. Go Rosa! Smack those Rape-Publican cronies!

NGU.

[aquart]

2. What a sensible idea.

Can we do it with all executives?

[Shallah Kali]

3. I wish they could retroactively do this to FEMA's heck of a job brownie

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