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((Here we go - this is a whitewash of HR 2749 - See next post for what it REALLY entails!))
House panel passes food safety reform bill
Posted by admin On 2009-06-18 03:46:00
By Jasmin Melvin
WASHINGTON - A U.S. House Committee on Wednesday passed legislation that would increase government oversight of the U.S. food supply, which has been tarnished by a series of high-profile outbreaks since 2006.
The measure, cleared by a voice vote in the House Energy and Commerce committee, would be the most sweeping reform of the food safety system in close to 50 years.
Efforts to overhaul the antiquated food safety system and give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — which regulates 80 percent of the country’s food supply — more authority and funding have surged following outbreaks tied to lettuce, peppers, spinach, peanuts and peanut butter in recent years.
The bill broadens FDA’s regulatory authority by requiring all facilities to have a food safety plan in place, giving FDA mandatory recall authority and allowing FDA greater access to company records.
“But FDA will not be the only cop on the beat,” said the committee chair, Rep. Henry Waxman.
“One of the most important changes that will occur under this bill is a new focus on prevention, and a shared responsibility between FDA and food manufacturers to keep the food supply safe,” he said.
The legislation would require the industry to pay $500 per facility each year as part of a registration fee, generating an estimated $189 million. Lawmakers said the funding would go toward increasing plant inspections and other food safety activities. A cap would be set so no single company would pay more than $175,000.
Inspections would take place every six to 12 months at high-risk facilities and between 18 months and three years for those deemed to be at lower risk. Currently, many facilities can go several years without being inspected.
The food industry, though still concerned by some provisions of the bill, has shown support for the new legislation.
“Because consumer confidence is the foundation of everything we do, manufacturers take food safety very seriously,” said Pamela Bailey, president and chief executive of the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
“We look forward to working with Congress to swiftly enact food safety legislation,” she added.
Similar food safety legislation also has been introduced in the Senate, but there is no timetable when the bipartisan measure will be taken up.
Waxman said he wanted the strong vote out of committee to “send a loud message about the need to move this legislation quickly.”
“I am hopeful that before too long, we can have a comprehensive food safety bill on President Obama’s desk,” he said.
An estimated 76 million people in the United States get sick every year with foodborne illness and 5,000 die, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(Reporting by Jasmin Melvin; additional reporting by Christopher Doering; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
http://www.goozad.com/news/House+panel+passes+food+safety+reform+bill_33324
Alarming Provisions of HR 2749
June 18, 2009
We Are Change LA
Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:
* HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food. [isn’t this every home in the US, every garden?] Although “farms” are exempt, the agency has defined “farm” narrowly. [What is the definition?] And people making foods such as lacto-fermented vegetables, cheeses, or breads would be required to register and pay the fee, which could drive beginning and small producers out of business during difficult economic times. [Yes. There are laws against this corporate-size-destroys-the-little-guy policy, aren’t there? Are home bread or cheese or lacto-fermented vegetable makers who make for their own families included in this?]
* HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [What is missing in pointing out this astounding control, is that it opens the door to CODEX and WTO “good farming practices” will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry’s products. They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do - against their own best wisdom - and paying out to industry against their will. There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one’s own grain to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or drugs, to work with nature at all. Grassfed cattle and poultry and hogs will be finished. So, it needs to be made clear where control will take us. And weren’t these the “rumors on the internet” that were dismissed but are clearly the case?]
* HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.” [This - that has been used to transport or hold such food - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.] Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area. [This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.]
* HR 2749 would empower FDA to make random warrantless searches of the business records of small farmers and local food producers, without any evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation. [If these bills cover all who “hold food” then this allows for taking of records of anyone at any time on no basis at all.] Even farmers selling direct to consumers would have to provide the federal government with records on where they buy supplies, how they raise their crops, and a list of customers.
[NAIS for animals and all other foods?]
* HR 2749 charges the Secretary of Health and Human Services with establishing a tracing system for food. Each “person who produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, or holds such food” [Is this not every home in the US?] would have to “maintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the food,” and “establish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such persons.” The bill does not explain how far the traceback will extend or how it will be done for multi-ingredient foods. With all these ambiguities, [with all these ambiguities, it is dangerous, period, separate from the money] it’s far from clear how much it will cost either the farmers or the taxpayers. [It is massive and absurd and burdensome beyond the capacity of people to comply - is this not fascism? - so it is a set up for being used to impose penalties endlessly and/or to eliminate anyone at will.]
* HR 2749 creates severe criminal and civil penalties, including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for individuals. [Does it include judicial review, Congressional oversight, a defined and limited set of penalties and punishments for a defined set of “crimes”? Or is it entirely ambiguous and left to the whim and sole power of “the Administrator”? Who is that person set to be? Is it Michael Taylor, Monsanto lawyer and executive, as Food Democracy has said? That is, do these bills set up an agency by which the entire US food supply will be turned over to the control of a multinational corporation under WTO regulations (and not to US farmers and not to US laws under the Constitution), with boundless freedom to do what it wants, and one infamous for harm to farmers and lack of safety of food?]
If it was not clear before how frightening these bills were, this small section of provisions, should make their actual fascism clear now. It goes way beyond “food safety” to absolute control over farms, animals, food, and us, including our movements and access to food at all.
http://wacla.org/2009/06/18/henry-waxmans-betrayal-of-our-existence-hr-2749/