Bringing the Rear End

As always, the FDA is the running behind the pack holding up the rear end. Is anyone taking the FDA seriously?

Food safety worries mount

The Food and Drug Administration, criticized by some in Congress for responding too slowly, is struggling to catch up with the implications of the spread of melamine-contaminated glutens from China to hogs, and the human food chain. The FDA is still trying to get its investigators into China, where a skeptical government only last week assented to investigators' visa requests.