From the National Grange-- to help you sort through the gabble gook:
Here is how the bill works. Under the guise of promoting “uniformity” of food safety and labeling laws in the U.S., the bill requires all state food safety laws to be identical to the requirements of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. If the FDA has not passed a regulation on a food threat, then all state regulations on that threat would immediately be voided. And, since the states regulate many food safety issues not covered by the FDA, many food safety laws will be voided and replaced with no law at all. For example, the bill would preempt Alaska’s newly passed law to label genetically engineered fish and California’s Proposition 65, a very effective law that requires labeling of food and consumer products that contain substances known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. It would also threaten state laws governing the safety of milk and shellfish.
The “uniformity” to be achieved by the bill is in many instances the uniform absence of food safety regulations.
Local and state officials are now responsible for 80% of the nation’s food safety enforcement. H.R. 4167 puts a stranglehold on the people most informed about local needs. It is opposed by dozens of environmental health groups, by California’s State Attorney General Bill Lockyer, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the Association of Food and Drug Officials, the National Conference of State Legislators and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture.
If this bill passes, not only will hundreds of current state food safety laws face being overturned, future state food safety and labeling initiatives could be impossible to put in place.
There are currently 226 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives to pass the bill in the House, so every letter is needed to ensure that these Representatives understand what a bad bill this is.
Library of Congress Thomasor
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You must be a lawyer. The California law on cancer causing ingridents made the company I was with at the time, hire a DEPARTMENT that could keep us legal' Basically, after $1 million dollars later, they produced some in store signs that said we were OK. We were a small company, how many millions were wasted by the big boys and the state trying to stay legal?
One more question: How did this foolish law make things better? Did it save a single life? Course, it did help a lot of Real Rats, the lawyers,rich.
Be the way, what is the difference between a genetically engineered fish and selective breeding?