Will more regulations and a more centralized food safety bureaucracy make us safer? What kind of regulations and implementation mechanisms would best serve the public's desire for ensuring food safety?

The FDA should be required to disclose its reasons for rejecting a drug, and Congress should reaffirm the provisions of the FDA Modernization Act.

The number of food-borne illness outbreaks has not been increasing. Food-safety agencies have been getting worse at identifying the causes of outbreaks.

We need to design regulatory approaches to ensure that molecular diagnostic tests are reliable while not overburdening those seeking to develop these important new technologies.

If a new comparative effectiveness research agency is allowed to use different--or inferior--scientific standards than those imposed on the private sector, the government will be the only voice in CER.

The exchange of off-label information and the sharing of scientific evidence can sometimes have important public health benefits.

Rigid adherence to restrictions on the exchange of off-label informationleads to failureto recognize that the sharing of scientific evidence can have important public health benefits.