GM Food Safety: Whose Job Is It?

It's not Monsanto's job:

"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job."
- Phil Angell, Monsanto's Director of Corporate Communications, in "Playing God In The Garden," by Michael Pollan, NYTs Magazine, 1998.

It's not the FDA's job:

"Ultimately, it is the food producer who is responsible for assuring safety."
- FDA Federal Register, Statement of Policy: Foods Derived From New Plant Varieties¹, 1992, p. 22991

________¹ A document to which the FDA continues to make reference, as recently as October, 2008.
Cartoon by the Christian Science Monitor's Clay Bennett.