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Progress Report on HR S510 Food Safety
ote that in the comments
This alert person recognizes the connection
between the Codex Alimentarius
and this Food Safety Law.
Date: 9/22/2009 6:45:05 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 2447 times
4:42 PM
September 22, 09
This article touches on some of the issues
I was writing about during a month of reseacch
and writing on HR2749 that passed the House
of Rep in August.
http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/09/15/consumer-protection-groups-pushing-for-f...
Note that in the comments
This alert person recognizes the connection
between the Codex Alimentarius
and this Food Safety Law.
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REPRINTED FROM ABOVE LINK
WRITTEN BY JAMES GORMLEY
http://thegormleyfiles.blogspot.com/
Amazed that U.S. food safety regulations strangely match those of other countries? Well, Section 306 of S.B. 510 would require “Recommendations to harmonize requirements under the Codex Alimentarius.”
And what about food supplement manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and health food stores? Will they be ensnared in this bill’s draconian, 1984-esque net? Very possibly so.
S.B. 510 (which would cost Americans $825 million in 2010 alone) and the House of Representatives version of this bill, H.R. 2749, which did pass, both do not address the root causes of the U.S.’s food safety problems, which were highlighted in both a recent campaign by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and by a letter to 99 U.S. senators by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF USA):
1. Current food policies promote and facilitate the consolidation and elimination of independent farmers, artisanal food producers and ranchers and this is inherently dangerous to both food safety and food security.
2. Sound U.S. food safety standards were weakened when Congress bowed to international standards that prohibit it from targeting food safety problems originating in foreign countries with stricter standards — unless Congress first applies the stricter standard to the U.S., regardless of whether the stricter standards are applicable to, or already addressed elsewhere in, the U.S. food production system.
3. Congress’ adoption of the internationally touted HACCP (hazards and risk-assessment-based) food safety system hampers Congress’ ability to ensure that even existing food safety requirements are properly followed.
Citizens for Health, R-CALF USA and other groups are urging the U.S. Senate to take the following steps to improve food safety:
1. Correct and reverse the fundamental deficiencies in our U.S. food system that make genuine food safety in the U.S. unattainable.
2. Re-establish food safety standards that were weakened when Congress bowed to international standards, and then order agencies responsible for food safety to begin hands-on inspection and enforcement of U.S. food safety standards for all imported food and for food processing facilities where food contamination is known to frequently occur, such as in large-scale, commercial slaughterhouses.
DEFINING FOOD SAFETY
We had better get on top of this.
See comments from
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
in response to this...
OCA Editor's Note: This USDA report attempting to make the case for "organic genetically engineering" is part of a well-funded campaign coordinated by Monsanto and their governmental, corporate, and non-profit partners to legitimize a dangerous and untested technology. This is a campaign to impoverish farmers by making them dependent on expensive genetically modified seeds and the array of chemicals needed to grow them. It is also making guinea pigs of consumers who are being force-fed unlabeled genetically modified foods. Throughout the text posted here, OCA editors have inserted links to the truth about biotechnology. To learn more about the dangers of genetic engineering, go OCA's Millions Against Monsanto page.
MONSANTO PUSH INSIDE USDA
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18764.cfm
ORGANIC PUSH INSIDE USDA
http://www.chewswise.com/chews/interview/
spearheaded by
KATHLEEN MERRIGAN
http://www.ota.com/news/press/84.html
MERRIGAN #2 Post at USDA
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE51M7QM20090223
USDA #1 POST,
TOM VILSACK
OCU POINT OF VIEW
ATTACK ON VILSACK
for BIOTECH TIES
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm
ORGANIC TRADE ASSOCIATION
SUPPORT FOR VILSACK and
ATTACK ON OCU
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm
This apparently had caused a split in the organic leadership
movement.
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI appears to be refearing to this
here:
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