Food Safety Bill will be Signed Under the Table Today
Food Safety Bill will be Signed Under the Table Today
Date: 1/4/2011 11:05:22 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 18016 times
9:02 am
January 4, 2011
Solar Eclipse Day
SO WHEN WILL ONE OF THE MOST POTENTIALLY IMPACTFUL
BILLS MODERNIING OUR FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM BE SIGNED????
Once again there is a move to
keep this bill under the radar.
HERE IS A NOTE I FOUND
ON FOOD SAFETY NEWS
President Obama is expected to sign the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law today when he returns from a family vacation in Hawaii. The signing will likely be low key. As of publication time, the signing was not on the president's official schedule and White House aides have indicated there will not be a formal bill signing ceremony.
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FOOD SAFETY NEWS
January 4, 2011
9:08 am
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FOOD POLITICS
Food Safety Bill Advocates Expect Funding Fight
BY HELENA BOTTEMILLER | JAN 04, 2011
President Obama is expected to sign a sweeping food safety bill into law today, marking the end of a lengthy legislative drama and turning the focus to whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will get the additional funding needed to implement the bill.
On the heels of a Tea Party-fueled midterm election, House Republicans have pledged to use their new majority to rein in federal spending and decrease the size of the bureaucracy--a tough environment for any government agency seeking greater resources. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a fiscal conservative who will chair the subcommittee that oversees FDA's budget, recently raised serious questions about the justification for the new food safety bill's price tag. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the new provisions will cost $1.4 billion over five years.
"I would not identify it as something that will necessarily be zeroed out, but it is quite possible it will be scaled back if it is significant overreach," Kingston told the Washington Post in late December. "We still have a food supply that's 99.99 percent safe. No one wants anybody to get sick, and we should always strive to make sure food is safe. But the case for a $1.4 billion expenditure isn't there."
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters on a White House media call Monday that she remains "optimistic" that the agency will be able to move forward and implement the bill, but declined to say whether the entire CBO estimate would be critical to carrying out all of the new responsibilities. Those tasks include mandatory recall authority, increased inspection frequencies of high-risk facilities, and enforcing new requirements that growers and food facilities have food safety plans and that foreign facilities importing food to the U.S. must meet the same standards.
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