Restaurant Law Group

It’s hardly news that the FDA needs help to do its job, and the way to spell that kind of help is m-o-n-e-y. After the drug Heparin killed more than 80 people, Congress wanted to know what happened. Apparently, the imported ingredients (from, guess which major Asian power) that were contaminated looked just like the good stuff until sophisticated testing uncovered the ruse. Nobody’s saying exactly how much it will cost to protect either the food supply or the drug supply from “foreign” mis-ingredients, but a national consensus needs to take shape fairly quickly that protection of the food supply is a national security issue in the brave new world of globalization.