More measures needed to ensure food safety
CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews interviewed Marler Clark client Lisa Brott, who became ill with an E. coli infection after eating E. coli-contaminated spinach in September, former USDA and FDA food safety official Michael Taylor, and Senator Dick Durbin for a story that aired tonight on the CBS Evening News. Notable comments included the following:
"There's no one in charge in the federal food safety system." - Michael Taylor"The basic allocation has nothing to do with who's getting sick, and it's out of proportion to where the actual risks in the food supply." - Michael Taylor
"When you consider 75 million Americans with food-borne illnesses each year, I do believe a better, more modern, streamlined agency would reduce those numbers. And it means that more people would survive." - Senator Dick Durbin
"It's outrageous so many people are poisoned by food. A lot more has to be done, whatever it takes, to protect people's health." - Lisa Brott
