Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety

U.S. President Obama smiles as he arrives to attend an Olympic basketball exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil national men's teams in Washington(Reuters) – Families, public health advocates and consumer groups called on the White House on Tuesday to implement delayed provisions in a food safety law they say would prevent nearly 3,000 deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year. Families of victims who have died from food-borne illnesses and consumer and health organizations wrote a letter to President Barack Obama calling on him push forward provisions of a food safety law signed last year that would regulate food imports, produce and packaged food against possible contamination. …

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