rssHouse Dems Push New Food Regulations
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:43 am
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Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman (Calif.) and John Dingell (Mich.) introduced legislation yesterday granting the Food and Drug Administration more powers to monitor the nation’s food producers.
The Washington Post describes the bill as lending the FDA “broad new enforcement tools, including the authority to recall tainted food, the ability to ‘quarantine’ suspect food, and the power to impose civil penalties and increased criminal sanctions on violators.”
Among other things, the proposal would put greater responsibility on growers, manufacturers and food handlers by requiring them to identify contamination risks, document the steps they take to prevent them and provide those records to federal regulators. The legislation also would allow the FDA to require private laboratories used by food manufacturers to report the detection of pathogens in food products directly to the government.
Just one question: Why doesn’t FDA have these powers already?
18 Comments
Comment posted May 28, 2009 @ 11:38 am
Maybe because Monsanto didn't have the connections to Congressional members (see Rosa DeLauro), who were willing to create more regulations to benefit them and eliminate their competition, like it does now?
Don't tell me you actually believe this has anything to do with food “safety.”
“Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control the people.”
–Henry Kissinger
This Maoist bill will kill the small farm and nationalize food production.
I do hope the fascist machinations of the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration finally put to bed the idea that the Democrat party have any interest in the small businessman (including small farms), or “the little guy.” They are all about the megacorps — from banks, to auto companies, to corporate farms.
Us “little guys” are going to be paying for the Democrats' trillions in corporate welfare for decades.
Comment posted May 28, 2009 @ 6:38 pm
Maybe because Monsanto didn't have the connections to Congressional members (see Rosa DeLauro), who were willing to create more regulations to benefit them and eliminate their competition, like it does now?
Don't tell me you actually believe this has anything to do with food “safety.”
“Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control the people.”
–Henry Kissinger
This Maoist bill will kill the small farm and nationalize food production.
I do hope the fascist machinations of the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration finally put to bed the idea that the Democrat party have any interest in the small businessman (including small farms), or “the little guy.” They are all about the megacorps — from banks, to auto companies, to corporate farms.
Us “little guys” are going to be paying for the Democrats' trillions in corporate welfare for decades.
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