Food Industry Whistleblowers Now Safer

Food industry workers who become whistleblowers are now safer from retaliation. That's thanks to a little-noticed provision in the food safety law the president signed last month. The Food Safety and Modernization Act is aimed at preventing food-borne sickness. It gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to order recalls. But the law also protects workers at regulated food companies from being fired, demoted or denied promotions or raises, if they speak up about what they think are violations.The non-profit Government Accountability Project sponsors a conference today to call attention to the new law.