date:Aug 31, 2012
According to the groups, the action has been taken as the government failed to implement and enforce a new food safety law- the Food Safety Modernisation Act-that could help prevent thousands of deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year.
The groups said that government officials had repeatedly missed mandatory deadlines for issuing final regulations required by the Act. They are asking a federal court to order officials at both the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office of M