Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 03/30/2009 8:00:27 PM PDT by freemike
From AceofSpades
"Meet HR 875. Its a "small" bill, not nearly as voluminous as the Spendulus, and it can easily be read in one sitting if you just want to get the gist of the nightmare it will create."
"Basically, HR 875 sets up a MASSIVE new government bureaucracy called the Food Safety Administration, and compels anything known as a "food establishment" to register with the federal government (paying registration fees of course) and to submit to inspections that are at different intervals depending on the type of "food establishment" you are."
Everything is banned.
Any questions?
Could never be enforced unless they hire all the out of work auto workers and brownshirt volunteers to goose step around to every vendor, farm, garden site and backyard in the country.
When I was a kid we had about a 1/4 acre garden (Mom was raised on a farm during the Depression). We grew all kinds of stuff. Dad built a little stand, and my brothers and I would sit there after school during evening rush hour. People would stop and buy anything we had. It was a great experience for us and we picked up some cash. Would this be illegal under this? WTF?
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
I just read the CRS and scanned this legislation. I’m not getting the same thing out of it as the author of this blog post.
While a lot of it looks like overkill, I think the motivation is due to incidents of importing contaminated food (China, the ecoli breakouts, etc). Basically they want to split the FDA into two bureaucracies: 1) Food and 2) Drugs.
Many of those sponsors in the post above are from the anti-free-trade camp.
H.R.875
Title: To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] (introduced 2/4/2009) Cosponsors (41)
Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Referred to House committee.
Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
SUMMARY AS OF:
2/4/2009—Introduced.
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Food Safety Administration. Assigns all the authorities and responsibilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services related to food safety to the Administrator of Food Safety.
Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws. Renames the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Federal Drug and Device Administration.
Directs the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program; and (2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food prevent or minimize food safety hazards. Sets forth requirements for the Administrator to carry out such duties, including: (1) requiring food establishments to adopt preventive process controls; (2) enforcing performance standards for food safety; (3) establishing an inspection program; (4) strengthening and expanding foodborne illness surveillance systems; (5) requiring imported food to meet the same standards as U.S. food; and (6) establishing a national traceability system for food.
Requires the Administrator to: (1) identify priorities for food safety research and data collection; (2) maintain a DNA matching system and epidemiological system for foodborne illness identification, outbreaks, and containment; (3) establish guidelines for a sampling system; (4) establish a national public education program on food safety; (5) conduct research on food safety; and (6) establish a working group on foodborne illness surveillance.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop the Food-Borne Illness Health Registry.
Directs the Comptroller General to report on the federal resources being dedicated to foodborne illness and food safety research.
Sets forth provisions regarding prohibited acts, recalls, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistleblower protections, and civil actions.
Oh no, the best food in the world. They are trying to starve us to death.
The local flea markets are next...then garage sales.
SEC. 401. PROHIBITED ACTS.
It is prohibited—
(1) to manufacture, introduce, deliver for introduction, or receive in interstate commerce any food that is adulterated, misbranded, or otherwise unsafe;
(2) to adulterate or misbrand any food in interstate commerce;
(3) for a food establishment or foreign food establishment to fail to register under section 202, or to operate without a valid registration;
(4) to refuse to permit access to a food establishment or food production facility for the inspection and copying of a record as required under sections 205(f) and 206(a);
(5) to fail to establish or maintain any record or to make any report as required under sections 205(f) and 206(b);
(6) to refuse to permit entry to or inspection of a food establishment as required under section 205;
(7) to fail to provide to the Administrator the results of testing or sampling of food, equipment, or material in contact with food, that is positive for any contaminant under section 205(f)(1)(B);
(8) to fail to comply with a provision, regulation, or order of the Administrator under section 202, 203, 204, 206, or 208;
(9) to slaughter an animal that is capable for use in whole or in part as human food at a food establishment processing any food for commerce, except in compliance with the food safety law;
(10) to transfer food in violation of an administrative detention order under section 402 or to remove or alter a required mark or label identifying the food as detained;
(11) to fail to comply with a recall or other order under section 403; or
(12) to otherwise violate the food safety law.
Be careful about what you read on this bill. There’s lots of rumors!
I hate to say it
But we need to sue everyone and show what an idiotic congress we have.
This is a form of protest.
The libs are giving us ammo, time to have some fun.
Thanks. See also my post #45
Ping for later....
Guess we'll just have to plant a bigger garden...if that is still ok with Big Brother 0bama.
Now, mind you, I'm NOT advocating anything violent, but if this bat-eared Robespierre of the New Reign of Terror at 1600 Penn Ave keeps up his FasTrak Socio-communist push, something somewhere is going to bust wide open.
We've got huge economic pressures on families and individuals all across the country, then this two-bit jackass from Springfield takes a lukewarm election win and spins it into his personal invitation to take the Greatest First World nation on Earth and see how fast he can transform it into a suburb of Cuba's largest garbage dump.
No offense, Homes, but you just can't DO that in America and expect peace and quiet. Folks are getting up in arms, as a first step, and they're fully prepared -- AND FULLY INTEND -- to go about shutting Obama down in as peaceful, and civil a manner as is humanly possible.
God help us all if "civil" doesn't cut the mustard, 'cuz it ain't gonna stop at "civil" when people all over the place realize that America is being folded, spindled, and mutilated into some kind of "neo-French socialist Utopia" (pronounced "HELL").
When enough folks decide it's FINALLY time to push RESET, and reboot the FedGov, things are really going to get hot around the Contiguous 48.
If things keep on, and that day DOESN'T come; well, then -- from one crazy Irishman to a crazy Scot -- we're fooked.
Just because the FedGuv can does not mean the FedGuv should. Basic health regulations, such as restaurant inspection, has always been a local matter.
This, of course, results from the ridiculously elastic interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause championed by Bobby Kennedy back in the early ‘60s. At that time, right thinking people applauded the use of this clause to eliminate segregated public accomodations. But the result of making up law out of thin air is that the FedGuv is empowered far beyond what is appropriate.
I don't have any direct knowledge, but I would bet that they have restricted things like melons and lettuce, that require a lot of water.
our governments intervention into our lives is getting more ridiculous day by day. aren’t there bigger fish to fry than this? Or is this the point? Do they really want to get this deep under our skin?
The more I think about it, the more I think this bill is an intentional loser. They are just running this up the flag pole so we can get all excited about it, and win one.
When they really want a regulation passed, they tag it onto Porkulus or a Continuing Resolution, and tell us it is an emergency, so Congress has to vote on it without taking time to read it.
The fact that this bill is small, isolated and easily understood means that it is designed to fail.
BTTT
We have an elderly man in our neighborhood that grows the BEST tomato’s, he keeps them in a basket in his driveway with a can to leave the money, he uses the honor system.
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