1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds

Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by pekk on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:38PM (#12467558)

I assume you support increased funding to FDA so they can hire more people and facilities to go after these cases, and that you are persuading others to also support this.

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by ddeck on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:22AM (#12468698)

Hiring the right people is likely to be more productive than hiring more. The FDA has a "revolving door" problem with the industries it is supposed to be regulating.

From a NY Times editorial on their poor response to a recent issue with supplements:

Much of the responsibility for the F.D.A.’s sluggish response must fall on Dr. Daniel Fabricant, who left a senior position at the Natural Products Association, a trade group for supplement makers and sellers, to head the F.D.A.’s division of dietary supplement programs in early 2011 and who jumped back to the trade association as its chief executive in the spring of 2014. He has been succeeded at the F.D.A. by several acting directors; the current one is Cara Welch, from the same trade group. Both dragged their feet on BMPEA. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/opinion/conflicts-of-inter...

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by pbhjpbhj on Saturday September 10, 2016 @11:22AM (#12469601)

Who choose to employ the fix to watch the hen-coop? Did they mysteriously get richer at the same time? Is there no government oversight of this?

I think USA needs to invade itself and bring some democracy along.

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by rwmj on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:01AM (#12468991)

You could pay them more. That's the Singapore model of good government (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-25/why-singa...).

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by kwhitefoot on Sunday September 11, 2016 @06:51AM (#12472806)

Isn't there any kind of quarantine period?

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by pyre on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:16AM (#12467961)

The FDA has its own set of problems. I feel like increasing funding doesn't guarantee that they will spend it on sorting out this fake food business.

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Re:1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds by Retric on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:25AM (#12469356)

This is a Department of Justice problem not an FDA problem FDA is focused on human Heath, not fraud.

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