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FDA begins implementing sweeping food-safety law
Washington Post ^ | January 4, 2013 | Brady Dennis

Posted on 01/04/2013 7:45:19 PM PST by Vince Ferrer

The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers.

The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks — caused by everything from leafy greens to canteloupes to peanut butter — rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; bho44; bhofda; fda; foodsupply
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To: Vince Ferrer

All yer foods are belong ta us.


21 posted on 01/04/2013 8:36:35 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: gaijin

Control thought.


22 posted on 01/04/2013 8:40:09 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: unixfox

“I’ll kill my food”

Why do you think they have re-introduced the wolf. (statement, does not require a ?)


23 posted on 01/04/2013 8:40:23 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: ClearCase_guy

I just looked that up and the rest of the paragraph is “food for thought”: Among the most enthusiastic enforcers of the law were urban members of youth organisations, educated under the Soviet system, who fanned out into the countryside in order to prevent the “theft” of state property. They constructed and staffed watchtowers (over 700 in the Odessa region alone) to ensure that no peasants took food home from the fields. The youth brigades lived off the land, eating what they confiscated from the peasants. They often humiliated the starving peasants by forcing them to box each other for sport, or forcing them to crawl and bark like dogs. Under the pretext of grain confiscation, the brigades routinely raped women living alone.[58]


24 posted on 01/04/2013 8:43:31 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: DBrow; All

” - - - A communist wants the state to own everything - - - “

So does that make the Federal Housing Agency a Communist entity?

They own more home loans (by way of Federal Loan guarantees) than any other entity.

Is Obama”care” also a Communist entity?


25 posted on 01/04/2013 8:43:56 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Vince Ferrer

Higher food prices and more small businesses eliminated. More jobs lost.


26 posted on 01/04/2013 8:46:43 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: basil
It’s not like people all over the country dropping dead from “unsafe” food.......

Around 3,000 people in the US die every year, and around 48 million become ill. There are always food recalls.

I got food poisoning a few months ago. I had to get an IV for dehydration, and pills to stop the nausea. It was not fun.

I haven't seen the text of the law, to know if it is based on scientific advice, or if it is just another power-grab in the name of a legitimate government function. Maintaining food safety is a huge challenge.

27 posted on 01/04/2013 8:49:44 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Mark


28 posted on 01/04/2013 8:55:42 PM PST by sport
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To: Tublecane
Organized crime is like government, or government is organized crime. I can never tell which.

That's easy. The Mob has a code and therre are some things that even they won't do. Progs have no such restrictions as the ends always justity the means.

29 posted on 01/04/2013 8:58:50 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (The Progs are pushing for war. Be ready.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

You always have to watch what Obama is doing with his other hand. While all the media’s attention has kept us focused on the Fiscal Cliff, Obama’s regulatory people just slipped a big one past us that could have much more enduring and profound consequences on our country. Similar to his EPA declaring CO2 to be a hazardous substance. Similar to his regulations requiring “economic justice” to be factored into every federal government funded transportation project.


30 posted on 01/04/2013 9:32:39 PM PST by Avid Coug
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To: Vince Ferrer
It's starting to feel like the cold, calculating logic of simple self-interest is going to dictate that the makers start looking to outside-the-US opportunities.

Maybe it's time to form a "virtual nation"? Let the physical nations compete for the benefits of the economy of a virtual economy that is always ready and able to relocate elsewhere. (I'm not sure this is possible?)

31 posted on 01/04/2013 9:48:40 PM PST by The Duke
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To: The Duke

If I were in the food production business, I would look at either exporting, or importing the food I used. If as a farmer I didn’t have to have these new regulations if I exported, or if I could just import food, I may do that.


32 posted on 01/04/2013 9:54:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
"Produce farmers would be required to ensure that their crops aren’t contaminated by bad water or animal waste. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife . . . Food industry groups welcomed the proposals . . . The FDA estimated that the produce regulations would cost a large farm roughly $30,000 a year.

The stupidity of our government is breathtaking. I wash produce before eating it. That is a dramatically more sensible option than trying to keep birds, bunnies, squirrels, and for all we know bees from entering farmland. As for adding $30k to a farm's annual costs, I don't think anyone in the Obama Administration has even the slightest clue how economics works (unless they really are trying to destroy our economy).

33 posted on 01/04/2013 10:24:33 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Pollster1
As for adding $30k to a farm's annual costs,

And don't forget, the inheritance taxes are back now. Many large farms will have to be sold instead of inherited and farmed.

34 posted on 01/04/2013 10:34:26 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

This means more families will be harvesting their meals from dumpsters.


35 posted on 01/04/2013 11:26:16 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: gaijin

“WHAT DID I MISS..?”

The air that we breathe or perhaps the CO2 we exhale.


36 posted on 01/05/2013 3:07:20 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Let’s not blow this out of proportion. For 70 years we’ve been suffering and now, finally, somebody’s doing something about our safe, cheap food.


37 posted on 01/05/2013 3:29:01 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Vince Ferrer

CONTROL EVERYTHING


38 posted on 01/05/2013 3:53:53 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Being Breitbart)
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To: exDemMom

It sure is a huge challenge! I mean, there’s no way mankind could feed themselves and survive WITHOUT THIS LAW, is there?

This is yet another unconstitutional power grab.


39 posted on 01/05/2013 4:22:50 AM PST by dinodino
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To: clearcarbon
This means more families will be harvesting their meals from dumpsters.

NEXT: FDA regulated dumpsters.....

40 posted on 01/05/2013 4:57:58 AM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for links to the 2011 & 2012 FR Cookbooks- Enjoy)
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