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Timing of Senate Food Safety Bill Uncertain
Timing of Senate Food Safety Bill Uncertain
Date: 9/2/2009 10:42:00 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1462 times
SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT WERE WRONG WITH
#HR2749; FSEA
THE FOOD SAFETY ENCHANCEMENT ACT
that now does before the Senate
when they find time!
http://countercultureliving.com/KCCBlog/hr-2749-oh-no/comment-page-1/#comment-67
Some corrections were made
to address the concerns of
small organic farmers, but
those deeply involved still had concerns.
http://www.mofga.org/Programs/PublicPolicyInitiatives/MOFGAPositionStatements...
SUBMIT COMMENTS HERE
TO THE FDA, about the
LEAFY GREEN GUIDELINES
now being looked at,
and likely about of FOOD SAFETY
IMPENDING BILLS
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1471422
8:37 PM
September 2, 09
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43433&dcn=todaysnews
Timing of Senate food safety bill is uncertain
By Jerry Hagstrom
CongressDaily
August 19, 2009
Whether the Senate takes up food safety legislation sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., this fall depends on whether the Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee finishes health care reform and has time to take it up, a Senate Democratic aide said on Tuesday.
After the House passed a food safety bill late last month, Senate Democratic leadership staff listed the Durbin bill as one Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would like to move this fall.
But the aide said on Tuesday that "it is unclear at the moment whether the Health committee will be able to do it because of their involvement in healthcare reform." Durbin introduced his bipartisan bill in March, but no hearings have been held on it.
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Durbin's bill contains some of the provisions in the House-passed bill, but there are also substantial differences and the Senate will take up Durbin's bill rather than the House version, the aide said.
This Bill gives additional power to the FDA.
I am not in favor of this.
Please see
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1476919
to get a sense of the direction closest to the heart of the FDA.
Here is one telling quote
from MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
our Food Czar, former Monsanto
figure and also part of the revolving
door that circulates execs between
Monsanto and the FDA.
TELLING QUOTE
given at the LEAFY GREEN HEARINGS JULY 16
from MICHAEL R. TAYLOR:
7:59 PM
July 31, 09
MICHAEL TAYLOR
BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
Hearing JULY 29:
"In addition, FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture
Organization/World Health Organization,
to develop commodity-
specific annexes to the Codex hygienic code
for fresh fruit and vegetable production,
starting with an annex for fresh leafy
vegetables and herbs."
--Mr MICHAEL TAYLOR
Our Food Czar for the FDA
Senior Adviser to the Commissioner on food issues
The above quote is from the written testimony
of MICHAEL TAYLOR July 29 at the
REP DENNIS KUCINICH
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC POLICY
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Subcommittee Hearing was Titled:
"Ready to Eat or Not? It Examined
the Impact of Leafy Green Marketing Agreements.
You can read Michael Taylor's complete
testimony at the above link.
Here is another great story that
discusses the contribution of this
highly successful man who
achieves many of his goals.
MICHAEL TAYLOR TO TACKLE
FOOD SAFETY at FDA
Small Farmer Warns “HR2749 Will Put Me Out of Business”
By Kimberly Hartke | Published: July 24, 2009
7:50 PM
July 30, 09
I first heard these words HAACP
a few days ago for the first time
in this article:
HR2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) which is currently making its way rapidly through the House of Representative will put us out of business.
HR2749 calls for:
a yearly registration with the FDA with a $500 fee
full HACCP plan for every type of produce sold or processed, for us that mean one plan for the dairy, one one for cheese making, one for transporting and retailing at the market, one for the fruits and vegetables, and another one for the nuts
FDA approved methods by which crops are raised and harvested. The most likely outcome will be along the lines of the leafy green ordinance, scorched earth and exclusion of any wildlife.
http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/07/24/small-farmer-warns-hr2749-will-put-me-ou...
ARTICLE PRAISING CHOICE
OF MICHAEL TAYLOR IN HIS NEW POST
AS FOOD CZAR
Here is a the second time
I am running across "HAACP"
But before you decide that I must have drunk the Kool Aid on this one, hear me out. He really is a good choice for this job. Why? Because he managed to get USDA to institute HACCP (science-based food safety regulations) for meat and poultry against the full opposition of the meat industry — a truly heroic accomplishment. His position on food safety has been strong and consistent for years. He favors a single food agency, HACCP for all foods, and accountability and enforcement.
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/michael-taylor-to-tackle-food-s...
THE 2009 FOOD "SAFEY" BILLS HARMONIZE
AGRIBUSINESS PRACTICWS IN SERVICE
OF CORPORATE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
from FARM WARS :SITE
FROM ARTICLE BY NICOLE JOHNSON
The US media are assiduously silent on the matter of Codex. Under the helpful cover of the media’s information blackout, Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings are regularly attended by officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, State, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of US Trade Representative, and the US Codex Office. Non-governmental agencies in attendance at the meetings include the 49th Parallel Biotechnology Consortium, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Consumers Union, Crop Life International, Dow Chemical, Dupont, the European Association of Bioindustries, the Grain and Feed Trade Association, the International Cooperative Alliance, the International Council of Beverages Associations, the International Council of Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Institute of Food Technologists, the International Glutamate Technical Committee and the International Life Sciences Institute, Monsanto, and Sygenta, among others –with the exception, that is, of any democratically elected and accountable representatives of citizens these food codes will affect.
THIS ONE IS FOR
LEGISLATORS
REAL DIRTY. OVER 21 Please
for This Link!
HYGIENICALLY GROWN VEGGIES
PURE, WITH NO DIRT
These are becoming popular in Japan.
and grow well in GMO Seeds that
certainly would be highly regarded
by the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
our "INTERNATONAL FOOD SAFETY BODY"
Japanese 'plant factory' churn out immaculate vegetables
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
st updated at 9:56 AM on 03rd June 2009
"They look more like the brightly
lit shelves of a chemists shop than
the rows of a vegetable garden.
But according to their creators,
these perfect looking vegetables could be the future of food.
In a perfectly controlled and totally sterile environment -
uncontaminated by dirt, insects or fresh air -
Japanese scientists are developing
a new way of growing vegetables."
CROPS, PONDS, DESTROYED IN
QUEST FOR FOOD SAFETY
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/MN0218DVJ8.DTL&fe...
Invisible to a public that sees only the headlines of the latest food-safety scare - spinach, peppers and now cookie dough - ponds are being poisoned and bulldozed. Vegetation harboring pollinators and filtering storm runoff is being cleared. Fences and poison baits line wildlife corridors. Birds, frogs, mice and deer - and anything that shelters them - are caught in a raging battle in the Salinas Valley against E. coli O157:H7, a lethal, food-borne bacteria.
In pending legislation and in proposed federal regulations, the push for food safety butts up against the movement toward biologically diverse farming methods, while evidence suggests that industrial agriculture may be the bigger culprit.
The leafy-green agreement is based on available science, but it is just a jumping-off point. Large produce buyers have compiled secret "super metrics" that go much further. Farmers must follow them if they expect to sell their crops. These can include vast bare-dirt buffers, elimination of wildlife, and strict rules on water sources. To enforce these rules, retail buyers have sent forth armies of food-safety auditors, many of them trained in indoor processing plants, to inspect fields.
NO WORRIES--These kids are all over five years old
KEEPING CHILDREN OUT
"They're used to working inside the factory walls," said Ken Kimes, owner of New Natives farms in Aptos (Santa Cruz County) and a board member of the Community Alliance With Family Farmers, a California group. "If they're not prepared for the farm landscape, it can come as quite a shock to them. Some of this stuff that they want, you just can't actually do."
Auditors have told Kimes that no children younger than 5 can be allowed on his farm for fear of diapers. He has been asked to issue identification badges to all visitors.
Not only do the rules conflict with organic and environmental standards; many are simply unscientific. Surprisingly little is known about how E. coli is transmitted from cow to table.
"THE FAILURE OF SCIENCE"
NEW PAPER MAKES A DAWNING CASE
AGAINST GENETICALLY MODIFID GOOD CROPS
http://www.ethicurean.com/2009/06/03/lotter-gmopaper/
Added
3:13 PM
August 1
FDA Corruption Jeopardizes Food Safety and Public Health
FDA Corruption Jeopardizes Food Safety and Public Health
July 23, 2009 in Economics, Environment, GMO Frankenfoods, Globalism, Health, Politics | Tags: Allergies, Cancer, FDA, Food Safety, Food Supply, GE Foods, GMO memos, Health Hazards, Monsanto, Public Health
JEFFREY SMITH, Executive Director of the
Institute for Responsible Techhnology
is making sure the secret memos written when the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2 are finally available to the public.
And Michael Taylor- the new Obama “food czar” was a direct party to the deception and corruption of that FDA process. Smith writes:
FDA Corruption Jeopardizes Food Safety and Public Health
http://laudyms.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/fda-corruption-jeopardizes-food-safety/
[5:19 PM
August 3, 09
Jeffrey Smith has a very important site!!!
Go visit Institute for Responsible Techhnology ]
3:31 PM
Aug 31, 09
The Milk Man Cometh
Friday, July 24. 2009
The man that brought you Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone is now america's food safety czar
in Government
Defined tags for this entry: FDA, food safety czar, genetically modified, GMO, government, Michael Taylor, Monsanto
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By Jeffrey Smith
While Taylor was at the FDA in the early 90's, he also oversaw the policy regarding Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH/rbST) -- injected into cows to increase milk supply.
The milk from injected cows has more pus, more antibiotics, more bovine growth hormone, and most importantly, more insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). IGF-1 is a huge risk factor for common cancers and its high levels in this drugged milk is why so many medical organizations and hospitals have taken stands against rbGH. A former Monsanto scientist told me that when three of his Monsanto colleagues evaluated rbGH safety and discovered the elevated IGF-1 levels, even they refused to drink any more milk -- unless it was organic and therefore untreated.
Government scientists from Canada evaluated the FDA's approval of rbGH and concluded that it was a dangerous facade. The drug was banned in Canada, as well as Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. But it was approved in the US while Michael Taylor was in charge. His drugged milk might have caused a significant rise in US cancer rates. Additional published evidence also implicates rbGH in the high rate of fraternal twins in the US.
Taylor also determined that milk from injected cows did not require any special labeling. And as a gift to his future employer Monsanto, he wrote a white paper suggesting that if companies ever had the audacity to label their products as not using rbGH, they should also include a disclaimer stating that according to the FDA, there is no difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.
Taylor's disclaimer was also a lie. Monsanto's own studies and FDA scientists officially acknowledged differences in the drugged milk. No matter. Monsanto used Taylor's white paper as the basis to successfully sue dairies that labeled their products as rbGH-free.
http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/The-man-that-brought-you-Monsantos-genet...
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