At a recent speech before a meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists in Atlanta, Espy said he is fully cooperating with the Justice Department investigation and that he expects to be cleared soon. At issue is whether Espy violated the 1907 Meat Inspection Act, which prohibits USDA employees from accepting gifts from anyone in the meat industry who might benefit from the agency's policies. Anyone within the USDA can, on an anonymous basis, allege anything. And since the allegations come against a senior Cabinet official, the FBI has an obligation to investigate. If found in violation, the secretary could receive a one-year mandatory prison sentence.
Prevention is the key, the report says.
Health care reform should not just change the way we pay for engine failure. It should ensure that the care and information Americans need to make the wisest dietary choices are available and reimbursable. Wooten said despite the findings, five of the nine major health care reform bills currently before Congress ignore nutrition altogether. The report recommends that any health care reform strengthen education attempts at improving diet and nutrition, provide insurance coverage for preventive and therapeutic nutrition, expand community nutrition programs, and increase research on nutrition and diet. The researchers studied 232 Los Angeles children, ages ten and under, with childhood leukemia and 232 who did not have the disease.