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Bipartisan bill
proposes more power for FDA Source of Article: http://www.ift.org/news_bin/news/news_home.shtml 3/06/2009-Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),
Judd Greg (R-N.H.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), and Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
introduced a bill on March 3 that would expand FDA funding and give the
agency more power to recall food, according to a Reuters
article. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Lamar
Alexander (R-Tenn.), Amy Klobucher
(D-Minn.), and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). The legislation was introduced as the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention reported that 677 people have been
sickened in an outbreak of Salmonella
traced to peanut products; the outbreak has affected more than 2,800
products. The bill would require food companies to submit detailed food
safety plans while increasing FDA access to records during an emergency.
Several bills have been introduced in Congress proposing food safety changes,
but they have stalled. The support of democrats, republicans, food industry
groups such as the Grocery Manufacturers Association, and even food
manufactures such as Kraft, leads the proposing lawmakers to believe this
bill will pass. Just last month, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
introduced a bill that would create the Food Safety Administration and put an
emphasis on preventing food contamination. |
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