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UNITED STATES-CLEANING UP THE USDA AND FDA.

The Obama Administration’s proposal to merge the

federal government’s two main food safety agencies is not a realistic

possibility, the chairman of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee

said Monday. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said that he’d like to see the U.S.

Department of Agriculture take over all of the food safety responsibilities of

the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, but that prospect is too unwieldy and

costly. "We’re not going to have a single food safety agency," Peterson said.