House GOP Slashes Food Safety Funding Because ‘The Private Sector Self-Polices’

House GOP Slashes Food Safety Funding Because ‘The Private Sector Self-Polices’: "pLast year, a bi-partisan majority in Congress approved a new food safety law, the first significant upgrade of the nation’s food safety system since 1938. The bill was so non-controversial that it was approved by unanimous consent in the Senate. But House Republicans have been threatening to defund the new law through the appropriations process. [...]/p"