You Know It's Bad When...

…the outgoing secretary of health and human services says our food supply isn't safe. That's right. In his resignation remarks, Tommy Thompson told press that he believed that it would be "easy" for terrorists to contaminate our food supply. "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do." Thompson stated that he "worried every single night" about terrorist threats to the nation's food supply. On the heals of Thompson's remarks, the FDA published new rules today aimed at facilitating the government's ability to track food contamination, especially in the case of a bioterror attack. The new rules will require food suppliers to keep records of where food come from and where they ship it to next, but does little to keep contaminated food from reaching the shelves. FDA's Bioterrorism Regulations: http://www.fda.gov/oc/bioterrorism/bioact.html
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