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How the FDA Monitors the Nation's Food Supply

Fascinating reporting from USA Today on how a group of retired women, many in their 70s and 80s, in rural America get together on 16 Friday mornings a year to whip up feasts that land in test tubes instead of on dinner plates. The prepared food is carefully analyzed by the Food and Drug Administration for their Total Diet Study.

USA Today August 12, 2003