Improving US Food Safety

Vice President Biden, Chair of the Middle Class Task Force, along with Task Force Members Secretary Sebelius and Secretary Vilsack, announce the findings of the President’s Food Safety Working Group. President Obama established the group in March to coordinate Federal efforts and develop short- and long-term agendas to make food safer.

Vice President Biden announced key actions that the Obama Administration is taking to improve the safety of the US food supply: * Strengthening "traceback" so that contaminated food is quickly identified and removed from shelves and that people get quick information about problems; * Instituting a new salmonella rule to prevent contamination in the egg industry; * Issuing new FDA guidance to prevent e. coli O157:H7 contamination of leafy greens, melon, and tomatoes; and * Implementing more thorough inspections to prevent e. coli and other pathogens at facilities that handle beef.

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[skeletonmom]

Geez, we live in the 21st century, the information age & age of technology...why havent we considered or put in place these proposal and rules already? Cheap food production-Greed anyone?

Read "Safe Food-Bacteria, Biotechnology & Bioterrorism", by Marion Nestle.

The NASA space program (with help from Pillsbury Co.) has a program in place that addressed food safety for the astronauts since 1959. Why cant we get this for the general public in 2009?! Pisser...

[lovehaightorg]

Obama Science Advisor Called For Planetary Regime To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures

In 1977 book, John Holdren advocated forced abortions, mass sterilization through food and water supply and mandatory bodily implants to prevent pregnancies

[pathfinderdaddy]

double speak lawyer talk

Satan has bought those three souls

[darktoadthesticky]

Another way to destroy the small farm and secure the big farms that will get a pass. making the food supply even more in danger.

[syrahlover]

number 1 priority is "do no harm"?

what about fluoride, aspartame, mercury?

why make it more difficult for organic food producers?

why classify some nutrients and vitamins as toxic?

what about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS?