While the U.S. monitors food safety through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and food programs for the needy are a component of the Farm Bill, the U.S. government does not explicitly recognize the right to food. In fact, at the World Food Summit in 2002, the U.S. was the sole country out of 182 that opposed all references to food as a human right, favoring privatization and biotechnology. It agreed to sign the final declaration after the right to food language had been diluted.³