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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday will conclude a 10-month public comment period on wide-ranging regulations proposed under the Food Safety and Modernization Act, which Congress passed in 2011 because of deadly food contaminations.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance." - The Declaration of Independence

"FDA Posts Current Employee Numbers on Transparency Website More than half of the FDA’s staff is employed at CDER and the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), according to employment statistics the FDA posted on its transparency site, FDA Basics. As of May 20, the agency consisted of 15,100 employees. Of that number, 4,163 worked at ORA and 4,156 were employed at CDER. FDA Basics — the first phase of the agency’s transparency initiative — is an online resource designed to help consumers better understand what the agency does." Source

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Department of Agriculture "he Department of Agriculture provides an array of subsidies for farmers and imposes extensive regulations on agricultural markets. It operates the food stamp and school lunch programs, and it administers numerous subsidy programs for rural parts of the nation. The Forest Service is also within the Department of Agriculture.

The department will spend $156 billion in 2013, or almost $1,300 for every U.S. household. It operates about 240 subsidy programs and employs 93,000 workers in about 7,000 offices across the country....."

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Charts and graphs .... EPA on Ag 101 "There are over 313,000,000 people living in the United States. Of that population, less than 1% claim farming as an occupation (and about 2% actually live on farms). In 2007, only 45% of farmers claimed farming as their principal occupation and a similar number of farmers claiming some other principal occupation. The number of farms in the U.S. stands at about 2.2 million.

What is a farm?......................"