editorial #6?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201455_pf.html

AS we can plainly see, this week’s article, from the Washington Post Online (which, fun fact, is just the print edition, in web formatting,) is about the changes President Obama is making to Food Safety regulations and inspections based on the salmonella scares in recent years. There have been several outbreaks of Salmonella in spinach, tomatoes, and peppers. With the latest appearances of the illness in one company’s peanut factories and products, a congressional investigation was called to inquire of the company in question. It was revealed that the factory where the infected products were being made and shipped out was operating far from FDA standards, with rats, bugs and other animals running around the factory and infecting the products being shipped out. It was at this time the president decided it was time to take action. He created the Food Safety Working Group. Though their official job is not yet cleat, the group will contain the former New York City health commissioner and other highly qualified individuals and will hopefully be getting the slipping standards of some companies back into shape, for the good of the public.
Personally, I think it’s nice the President can take enough time off the talk show and college basketball circuit to get some work done. Seriously though, it may seem like another superfluous department for taxpayers to pay for, only necessary because the old one wasn’t doing its job, but this one might be necessary, for the time being, considering just how much accidental salmonella has been getting into the people’s food.