Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety

(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. …