President Barack Obama, speaking as the nation's chief executive and a father, wants the nation's food safety agency to do a better job.
Concerned about a salmonella outbreak involving peanut products that has sickened 550 people and is blamed for at least eight deaths, Obama says he wants to review how the Food and Drug Administration operates.
"I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to," Obama said in an interview aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show.
The president said Americans should be able to rely on the government to keep children safe when they eat peanut butter and that includes his 7-year-old daughter Sasha.
"That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week. And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch," Obama said.
I think that a thorough look into how the Food and Drug Administration operates, is long overdue!!! Not only do I not want Sasha to get Salmonelia. I don't want my aunt Katherine to have a premature Heart Attack or Stroke, because the FDA rubber stamped a drug.
What's your opinion?
Concerned about a salmonella outbreak involving peanut products that has sickened 550 people and is blamed for at least eight deaths, Obama says he wants to review how the Food and Drug Administration operates.
"I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to," Obama said in an interview aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show.
The president said Americans should be able to rely on the government to keep children safe when they eat peanut butter and that includes his 7-year-old daughter Sasha.
"That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week. And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch," Obama said.
I think that a thorough look into how the Food and Drug Administration operates, is long overdue!!! Not only do I not want Sasha to get Salmonelia. I don't want my aunt Katherine to have a premature Heart Attack or Stroke, because the FDA rubber stamped a drug.
What's your opinion?