Today’s Los Angeles Times includes a report on the nation’s food safety. In the report, Times Staff Writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar writes that after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration held a "meeting of the minds" on how to prevent a terrorist attack on the food supply, but that
Hogs that ate melamine not fit for humans, FDA rules
*Diedtra Henderson of the Boston Globe reports that up to 6,000 hogs in California, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah that ate pet food tainted with industrial chemicals cannot be safely sold to humans, federal authorities said yesterday, and should be euthanized at the farms where they have been held from