Rep. John Dingell In Support of Food Safety

Each year, 76 million Americans are sickened from consuming contaminated food and 5,000 of these people die. In just the last few years, there has been a string of food-borne illness outbreaks in foods consumed by millions of Americans each day from spinach to peppers to peanuts, pistachios and cookie dough. This recent series of outbreaks of food-borne illnesses has demonstrated that they are not random, unpreventable occurrences, but are due to widespread problems with our current food safety system.

Today, the House passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act (H.R. 2749) to fundamentally change the way we protect the safety of our food supply. The new authorities provided to the FDA to better ensure food safety include more frequent inspection of food processing facilities, the development of a food trace-back system to pinpoint the source of food-borne illnesses, and enhanced powers to ensure that imported foods are safe.

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[KnowledgeIsPower11]

Goverment demons controlling our foods?? hahahah sounds like a perfect Terrorist plan to take over each Americans life if you ask me

[felicity5155]

Food safety? You mean government control over your food supply.

[aesthector]

so the one star rater is AGAINST food safety, meeting the stereotype successfully that fascists are SC@ munching retards?