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President Obama says he wants to review how the Food and Drug Administration operates.

President Barack Obama, speaking as the nation"s chief executive and a father, wants the nation"s food safety agency to do a better job.

Concerned about a salmonella outbreak involving peanut products that has sickened 550 people and is blamed for at least eight deaths, Obama says he wants to review how the Food and Drug Administration operates.

"I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to," Obama said in an interview aired Monday on NBC"s "Today" show.

The president said Americans should be able to rely on the government to keep children safe when they eat peanut butter and that includes his 7-year-old daughter Sasha.

"That"s what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week. And you know, I don"t want to have to worry about whether she"s going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch," Obama said.

The FDA had no comment and referred queries to the White House.

White House plans to quickly appoint a new FDA director may be complicated by Senate delays in confirming Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency that oversees the FDA.

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More than 800 consumer products, ranging from ice cream to dog biscuits, have been recalled since federal officials traced the source of the salmonella outbreak to a Georgia peanut processor owned by Peanut Corp. of America.

The number of goods affected could well set a record. At one point last week

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