So Close the House Can Taste Safer Food Posted
by Tim at 07/28/09 01:16 PM
The pressure is coming on heavy for the House of Representatives to pass a much-needed overhaul of the nation's food-safety system, the Food Safety Enhancement Act (H.R. 2749), when the House meets on Wednesday, July 29. While the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the bill in June by a unanimous voice vote, Rep. Frank Lucas, the ranking Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, has raised objections to the bill and urged its delay.
After months of hearings and bipartisan cooperation, this bill is on the verge of passage and should not be derailed.
We have long advocated for the measures in H.R. 2749 to improve food safety by giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to recall tainted food, beefing up inspections, and enacting other critical reforms, citing the string of serious food-borne illnesses linked to peanut butter, spinach, peppers, and other common foods.
This bill will make food safer and avoid repetition of incidents like the one that sickened Jacob Goswick of Arizona. In 2006, when Jacob was in the second grade, he ate spinach, believing it would make him strong. The spinach was contaminated with E. Coli, and Jacob spent many weeks in the hospital with kidney failure and its aftermath. Jacob was actually lucky - he recovered. Another child died in that outbreak. Jacob says he hopes what happened to him won't happen to other kids, and we hope so, too. This bill will move us closer to repairing our broken food safety net. We can ill afford to wait any longer.
The House is expected to vote on the bill on Wednesday, July 29, under suspension of the rules.
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Posted by Richard Tebaldi at 07/28/09 03:58 PM
How about thinking outside the box?
Why can't we make food suppliers document where the food is coming from and what is done to prevent deseases from the product... do the same thing as ISO does. Make THEM guarantee the food safety under penalty of they will not be allowed to ship produce into the US for 3 months for the first offense, 6 months for the second offense and the third time, NEVER AGAIN!
The people running the banned companies can in no way ever be involved in another company in any position, under penalty of jail time for all the CEO's involved... Ya wanna make them responsible? We should not have to "inspect" what's coming in... The should earn our business by PROVING what we get is good foodstuffs.
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Posted by Ed Hay at 07/28/09 09:13 PM
The FDA is one of the most corrupted and bribed department in the federal government, The last thing I want to do is give them more power. These are the same people that want to irradiate all your green living food. The same food if ate in a healthy diet would give your body what it needs to fight off this bacteria and any others. Killing the food you eat only weakens the body systems.
This will put lots of little farms under lots of preasure and may even close them down. Just makes big government bigger.
No Thank you.
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