ARTICLE: "FDA to Toughen Food Inspection: Imports With Biggest Risk May Get Extended Looks Through Supply Chain," by Jane Zhang, Wall Street Journal, 14 June 2007, p. A3.
This one, as I've oft noted here, is just gonna keep coming and coming, with food worries driving most of the drive for transparency up the chain.
So we'll see FDA extend its nets quite logically, and "collect much more data from overseas on how foods are produced and handled--called 'life-cycle' data--and feed it into a data-base for inspectors."
What Enterra would then do, is help involved agencies dynamically manage the rules of response, because this is going to be both a huge data flow and a complex application of a plethora of rules (many conflicting and many involving us in the rule-set regimes of partners) that everyone will want to run while keeping the flow hyper-efficient, because companies and states can't see their ag and food companies' competitiveness killed in the process.
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Credibility is a major issue for China at this point in this area. Given that Chinese academics are being openly quoted in the Western media contradicting official statements, the government needs to be able to enforce the existing rules. Any student of American history will remember that the problems that China is having are similar to the ones that occurred in the United States in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century that lead to implementation of much stricter regulations.
Posted by Robert Kawaratani | June 14, 2007 8:51 PM