Food Safety Law Under Fire
NPR’s Brenda Wilson reports from Washington on the renewed debate over the Delaney Clause, the 35 year-old law which bans carcinogenic additives from processed foods. New EPA administrator Carol Browner says that the ability to detect almost infinitesimal traces of chemicals in food has rendered the law obsolete, and in a move that’s surprised some environmentalists, Browner has suggested that Congress should consider revising the law.
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