Michael Taylor: Monsanto's Man?

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Upon arriving at the FDA in the summer of 1991, Taylor recused himself for one year from taking part in any agency action dealing directly with Monsanto or any other King and Spalding clients."[13] It also reported that "Some longtime agency critics found the charges against Taylor misplaced. Sidney Wolfe, a physician who heads the Public Citizen Health Research Group here, has filed complaints with the FDA about revolving-door ethics issues concerning other officials. But he said yesterday that 'It's barking up a silly kind of tree to be going up against Mike Taylor.' Wolfe said that 'as far as we're concerned, he's done a perfectly good job.' Wolfe compared Rifkin's charges to saying that anyone who worked for a drug company and began working for the FDA should not be allowed to say anything about drugs in general -- a stance that Wolfe characterized as 'preposterous.'"

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During this time, according to Marion Nestle, Taylor made strong arguments for a more rigorous and unified approach to food safety, in which he argued for:

"A single agency accountable for providing consistent and coordinated oversight of food safety, from farm to table.
Institution of Pathogen Reduction: HACCP, with performance standards verified by pathogen testing, at every step of food production.
Recall authority, access to records, and penalties for lapses in safety procedures.
Standards for imported foods equivalent to those for domestic foods.
Food safety to take precedence over commercial considerations in trade disputes."

Also much, much more which argues for Taylor's competency, rather than against.