Another Food Safety Bill Headed to the U.S.
About one third of Americans are "very or extremely" concerned about food safety, with this percentage of people holding firm since 2007.
National food scares, like the salmonella-peanut butter outbreak, are blamed for propping up America's uneasy feelings.
That's why a new bill, on its way to the Senate, seeks to improve U.S. food safety.
The Food Safety Enhancement Act includes substantial revisions to previous food safety initiatives, such as implementing science-based standards for minimizing food borne contaminants, establishing an importer verification program, and setting up increased protection for whistle-blowers.
The bill also gives inspectors additional access to food production facilities at a frequency determined by a risk-based schedule, and grants government officials the power to halt distribution and issue immediate recalls.
Given the current political upheaval in the United States, how do you feel about a bill giving the government more pull in food politics?
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Personally, I think this is just trying to repair an irreparable situation. Everything in this bill is geared towards making corporate agriculture and animal rearing less dangerous, when so many of the problems could be solved with localized agriculture.
The government should be setting standards, but the question is whether or not they are addressing an appropriate target, which corporate agriculture is not.
ReplyI hear Katie on this but anything to stop some of the crap going on in some of these plants is OK with me. Will it help.. remains to be seen.
ReplyAll this are already implemented in Sweden and I think that is why food in Sweden are among that safest in the world.
ReplyMaybe it works for Sweden, but since the US becoming more dictatorial, I fear that their intentions regulations like this to control the population.
Also, I'm curious if corporations run politics in Sweden, as they do in the US.
The legislation is pushed by Monsanto. They have no interest in producing healthy food.
ReplyThat may be a help, but their plan needs a lot of work. If they will switch to testing on a "risk-based" schedule, it's very possible that "low risk" operations will get inspected LESS often than they are now so the inspectors can do the "high risk" operations more often. Just because a plant is "low risk" doesn't mean things can't happen...the peanut butter/Salmonella thing was really a fluke; a peanut butter plant would probably be a low risk factory ordinarily, but low risk doesn't mean NO risk.
ReplyCongress is powerless to address food safety until it stops the use of recycled sewage on food crops. It is all a silly game at the moment that will destroy farms and food processes and those people with damaged immune systems. Not to mention those ill folks who will spend hours over the toilet where the cycle will began again. see
Wild Boar or Waste Water? Who Slimed the Spinach?
ReplyPublished September 11, 2009
Can Wildlife Really be Blamed when U.S. is Using Contaminated Water to Irrigate our Fields?
http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/09/11/wild-boar-or-waste-water-who-slimed-the-spinach/
This will just give the government somethings else to spend money on. However controlling the food industry is better than controlling our health care.
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