Kellogg CEO Urges Food Safety Reform

Chief executive David Mackay of Kellogg Co., the world’s largest cereal maker, is urging Congress to revamp how the government polices the food industry.

He is calling for new requirements that all food companies have written safety plans, annual federal inspections of facilities that make high-risk foods and other reforms.

Kellogg lost $70 million in the recent salmonella outbreak, after it had to recall millions of packages of peanut butter crackers and cookies.

The peanut paste used to make the products came from Peanut Corp of America, which allegedly shipped products that managers knew were contaminated with salmonella.

The outbreak has sickened at least 691 people and is blamed for nine deaths nationwide.