Food Police

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.

Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, and Mr. DEFAZIO) introduced the following bill; which was 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

Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome, Italy Fax: +39 06 57054593 E-mail: codex@fao.org http://www.codexalimentarius.net

Seems they are out to close a lot of food establishments...

(1) CIVIL PENALTY-

(A) IN GENERAL- Any person that commits an act that violates the food safety law (including a regulation promulgated or order issued under the food safety law) may be assessed a civil penalty by the Administrator of not more than $1,000,000 for each such act.

(B) SEPARATE OFFENSE- Each act described in subparagraph (A) and each day during which that act continues shall be considered a separate offense.

Codex Alimentarius is the monster waiting in the wings. The UN agency, sponsored by the German drug maker Bayer or Bayern, has come up with nutritional “standards” for everyone in the world that will leave us as undernourished as our fellow citizens living in mud huts.

They are slowly but surely working toward banning over-the -counter nutritional supplements, vitamins, etc. And BigPharma is working slowly but surely to buy up formulas and patents of the good stuff so that they’ll be ready to sell us Vitamin C for $60 for a month’s supply by prescription when the stuff is banned from the shelves.

Some of us have been shouting until hoarse about this for years. Go look at the Codex Alimentarius site. Norway and Canada are already in the loop. I could NOT send my friend in Canada a bottle of multivitamins without having it confiscated as contraband by Canadian customs. Pretty serious stuff and the media is going to spend the next month telling us 0bama’s new dog. And they will run night and day with stories about a test that showed that VitaminE is bad for you, flying in the face of decades of studies showing how very valuable and necessary that nutrient is that never got reported.

If we don’t understand that this is One Worldism at its worst, we’re going to be in horrible trouble.

This bill has been a hot topic on gardening forums. Many of the posts comment about “big corporations” that “only want to make money” and how this bill will prevent them from harming us. They want the “playing field leveled” and somehow this bill will stop produce that is grown with chemicals that are illegal here in the U.S. from entering the country. No one has an answer as to how the Feds would determine the growing conditions of all the forgien produce entering this country. I don’t understand these people. They hate big corporations because they assume all big companies are making money by somehow harming or cheating consumers. But they have no hatred of big government that could abuse the power this bill gives over small farm operations.

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