Director of China Studies at the Nixon Center
Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center
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Drew Thompson
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FROM Drew Thompson
To the Point
How Safe Is America's Food Supply? Recent reports of chemical and biological contamination have raised troubling questions about food safety in the globalized economy. America imports four times as much food as it did ten years ago, but a reduced staff of inspectors can look at just one-percent of nine million shipments from overseas.
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