School districts will need to make money available for increased inspections, and for the equipment (meat thermometers, refrigerator thermometers, hand-washing sinks) necessary for safe food preparation.
And Congress needs to give these reforms the force of law (making it harder for another administration to backslide) and provide more money for increased inspections and oversight.
Ms. Bresch has helped to broker an agreement that would require the industry to pay $299 million a year for increased inspections of foreign drug plants, a deal that must be approved by Congress and one she says will prevent some shortages.
A law passed by Congress last year gave the Food and Drug Administration new powers to mandate that companies undertake preventive measures to reduce the likelihood of such outbreaks, and the law called for increased inspections to ensure compliance.
One hundred senators and 535 members of the House of Representatives will vote in September on whether to oppose the deal struck by the coalition in Vienna, which proposes lifting sanctions in exchange for increased inspections and various restrictions on Iran's nuclear activities.
Such concessions have allowed proponents of increased inspections like France to argue for more time.
The report recommends increased inspection fees in order to fund a greater number of inspections, more personnel, and better training.
The American firms say the Chinese government is also making life more difficult for imports through non-tariff barriers such as increased inspections and slower custom clearance.
The Bush Administration's fixation on radiation sensors has not been accompanied by a comparably ambitious drive to fund, for example, increased inspections of companies that hold commercial nuclear material that could be used to build dirty bombs, and, as a result, the country's regulatory system in this area remains strikingly weak.
The requirement to increase inspection speeds for non-destructive testing (NDT) of composite aerospace parts is common to many manufacturers.
