Food Safety Bill

Produce Problems: How Pigs, Pollution And Other People Taint Our Fruits And Veggies

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Farming, Video, Foodborne Illness, Produce, Agriculture, Food Safety, The Infection Loop, Food Safety Bill, Listeria, Organic, E. Coli, Green News

The second in a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Ashley Armstrong's pa...

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If You Eat, You Better Occupy Wall Street

Dave Murphy | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Food Politics, Monsanto Usda, Obama FDA, Obama Monsanto, Obama Corn Industry, Obama Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Obama Usda, Obama-Agriculture, Obama Food Industry, Video, Food News

For everyone who eats, the events that brought down our banking system and the lack of accountability for those who rigged the rules in their favor should be lessons in the making.

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Infographic: A Food Safety Primer

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Food, Food Safety, Cooking, Health, Food Safety Legislation, Cooking Food Safely, Food Safety Tips, Food Safety Bill, Food News

While the debt deal struck earlier this month puts funding for the Food Safety Modernization Act, which passed in 2010 and will help the FDA improve the safety of our food, at risk, there is information that can empower consumers now.

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Protect the Public Fom Tainted Produce? Outrageous!

Alex Formuzis | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: United Fresh Produce, Food, Food Poisoning, Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Fda Food Regulations, Ecoli, Food Politics, Food News

The produce industry, fresh off a failed attempt to get the federal government to fuzz up the results of its annual tests for pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, is at it again.

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Little-Known Provision In New Food Safety Law

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Peanut Corp, Fda, Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Modernization Act, Government Accountability Project, Food Industry, Food News

MINNEAPOLIS — Food industry workers who become whistleblowers gained protection against retaliation from their employers with a little-noticed p...

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Democrats Attempt To Revive Food Safety Bill

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House has passed sweeping legislation that aims to make food safer in the wake of E. coli and salmonella outbreaks in peanuts, ...

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A Small Farmer's Viewpoint to the Tester Amendment (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Large Corporate Farms, Tester Amendment, Midsize Farmer, s510, Food Safety, Small Farmers, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Anthony Boutard, Food News

Midsized farms may ultimately bear the full brunt of the Food Safety bill. But to what extent have the food contamination scares in recent years been traceable to them?

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Over-Regulating Small Farms Doesn't Make Food Safer

Fedele Bauccio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety Bill, Small Producers, Family Farms, Farm to Fork, Tester Amendment, Haccp, Food Borne Billness, HARCP, S 510, Food Safety Modernization Act, Bon Appetit, Food News

Food is never completely sterile. But the importance of supporting our nation's small farmers outweighs far smaller food safety risks.

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Food Safety Law Makes History

Barbara Kowalcyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Barbara-Kowalcyk, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Kevin's Law, Fda, Food News

The law contains key elements of Kevin's Law, named in memory of our son who died in 2001.

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My New Year's Food Safety Resolutions: What I Will Be Doing Next Year

William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmonella, Food Safety, E. Coli, Tester Amendment, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Food News

I resolve in 2011 to spend even more time in Washington D. C. trying to explain to Jack and his buddies, "why it is a bad idea to allow your constituent to be poisoned."

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A Presidential Rebound?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, Obama Vacation, First Responders, Gop, House of Representatives, Obama Polls, Mitch McConnell, 112th Congress, John Boehner, Gallup Poll, Filibuster, Food Safety, Congress, Obama Approval Rating, New Start Treaty, Democrats, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Don't Ask Don't Tell, 9/11 First Responders, Lame-Duck Session, Food-Safety Bill, Republicans, Tax-Cut Deal, Senate, Politics News

So here's what we know: The president's job-approval rating is back up again, higher than it's been in months. And here's what we don't know: Why?

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Obama To Sign Food Safety Bill Today

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Food Safety, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Obama Food Safety Bill, Obama Food Safety Modernization Act, Food News

WASHINGTON — Foreshadowing the coming power struggles between the White House and a more Republican Congress, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ...

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Food Safety Gets a Chance

Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Politics News

Salmonella in eggs, peanuts, tomatoes, and spinach; and melamine in pet food and candy imported from China... With a regularity that has become downri...

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18 Changes To Food Safety The New Law Will Bring (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety Guidelines, The Food Safety Act, Food Safety Regulations, New Food Bill, Slidepollajax, Food Safety Law, Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Modernization Act, s510 Bill, Food Safety Act, Food Safety and Modernization Act, Home News

The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed by the U.S. Senate December 22 and headed for President Obama's signature, aims to enhance the safety of foo...

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House Sends Food Safety Bill To President

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sendi...

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House Passes Food Safety Bill, Sends To President

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Food Safety Legislation, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Food Politics, Home News

WASHINGTON — The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending i...

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Food Safety Bill Passes Senate By Unanimous Consent

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. It was the...

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Why Is The Food Safety Bill So Controversial?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Guidelines, What Is the Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Bill Controversy, Home News

While the industrial food supply is a reality, the debate over the Food Safety Bill stems from a fundamental disagreement about whether industrial values and methods should predominate in determining safety.

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The Food Safety Bill: Deeply Flawed, But Still Needed

Josh Ozersky at Time.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FDA Recall, Food Safety, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Recall, Fda, Food Safety Bill, Food News

The Senate's Food Safety Modernization Act, prematurely announced as a done deal a week ago, is stalled again -- or "doomed," if you go by some news o...

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Changing the Food Landscape, One Person at a Time: Part One

Karen Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Meal Planning, Prison Gardens, Produce, Food Co-Ops, Timothy Tucker, Prison Food, Lunch, Organic Gardens, Frozen Food, Institutional Food, Food Safety Bill, School Lunch, Salvation Army, The Family Dinner, Laurie David, Food News

There is a lot of innovation going on in the realm of school lunches, none of it having anything to do with food safety bills or mandates from lawmakers. In fact, government is where the least amount of innovation is happening.

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9 Major Food Safety Snafus Of The Decade (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FDA Food Recalls, Food Politics, Slidepollajax, Senate Passes Food Safety Bill, Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Fda, Major Food Recalls, Home News

Salmonella from eggs, E. Coli in spinach, dangerous caffeine/alcohol drink combos. It begs the question: Is the food in America safe? Well, the U....

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Get Food Safety Done! Once the GOP Is in the Kitchen, Food Safety Is Toast

William Marler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Marler, Food Safety, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, S. 510, Senate Republicans, Food Politics, Tom Coburn, Mitch McConnell, Filibuster, Politics News

To the chagrin of everyone who worked hard to get the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act passed out of the Senate Monday, the bill is now facing a significant uphill battle.

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Jon Stewart Tackles Food Safety Bill Paranoia

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Senate held hands, mostly, Tuesday night to pass the sweeping Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73-25. The landmark food safety bill all...

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House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error

Roll Call | Nov. 30, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety Bill Error, Senate, Food Politics, Food Safety, Harry Reid, Congress, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, House Food Safety Bill, Senate Food Safety Bill, Food News

A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a ...

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Food Safety Modernization Act: Why Its Passage Matters

Sen. Harry Reid | Posted 05.25.2011

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The system to prevent contaminated food from ever getting as far as the kitchen table failed. That's why I led the Senate in passing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.

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