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WASHINGTON – Every few months, the Food and Drug Administration goes into fire-brigade mode, rushing to get control over another safety crisis.

Tainted peanuts. Unsterilized syringes. Salmonella in Mexican chili peppers. A contaminated blood thinner from China that sent patients into life-threatening shock.

Some say the FDA is broken.

“Bet yourself a new hat or a fine dinner that you are going to have a scandal a month,” said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. “

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