Food & Drug malAdministration

Sigh.

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of hogs in at least five states and poultry at a Missouri farm ate salvage pet food that had been laced with an industrial chemical, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday, opening potential avenues for the contaminant to enter the human food supply.

So starts a Boston Globe article today (h/t AmericaBlog; a related post here). So, it's not just my pets that they have endangered. And better yet,

The ease with which an imported ingredient laced with industrial chemicals penetrated the pet food supply paints a "frighteningly easy" road map for would-be terrorists to strike America's food supply, said US Representative Janice D. Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois. Schakowsky's comments came during sweeping and emotional testimony that linked faulty federal oversight to nationwide recalls of tainted peanut butter , suspect spinach, and lethal pet food.

Nothing new, I suppose. Maybe Homeland Security needs to take over the FDA. Or would that be worse still?

UPDATE: the hits just keep on comin'! Here's to the Occupational Health and Safety malAdministration. In the NYT today (h/t AmericaBlog again):

Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.

The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. [snip] “The people at OSHA have no interest in running a regulatory agency,” said Dr. David Michaels, an occupational health expert at George Washington University who has written extensively about workplace safety. “If they ever knew how to issue regulations, they’ve forgotten. The concern about protecting workers has gone out the window.”

Lots of things out the window, huh?

Another UPDATE (from an AP story, on FoxNews[!]; h/t Crooks & Liars]:

FEMA acknowledged earlier this month that it would not have a federal plan ready for responding to emergencies before the approaching hurricane season, which begins June 1.

The Federal Emergency misManagement malAdministration: at least they can keep their acronym.