President Obama is proposing to create additional bureaucracy to deal with the existing bureaucracy.

That’s the only way to explain his proposal to “make Americans’ food safer.”

The Associated Press reports a dozen agencies currently have jurisdiction over regulating food.

Currently, the Department of Agriculture oversees the safety and inspections of meat and processed eggs and the Food and Drug Administration oversees safety of most other foods. The split oversight is often complicated – the FDA would be responsible for the safety of a frozen cheese pizza, for example, but USDA takes over part of the duties if the pizza has meat on it.

His solution? Create a new office in the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee it all.

Consolidation “is an essential step to reforming the federal food safety system overall,” according to Obama’s budget.

On Monday, the Obama administration proposed moving authority to HHS, arguing food-borne illness outbreaks are “public health concerns.”

“In this tough economy, the last thing producers and consumers need is more red tape,” Sen. Pat Roberts said in response to the proposal, according to the New York Times.

Christopher Waldrop of the Consumer Federation of America tells the times any new agency should be outside HHS.

“HHS is a massive organization,” according to Waldrop. “A new food safety agency would be lost among the other priorities of the department, and would likely not receive the recognition or resources necessary for it to be effective.”

Obama’s budget proposal says the current system’s “fractured oversight and disparate regulatory approaches” cause “confusion.”