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HR 2749 has been referred to the Senate. This bill proposes greater FDA regulatory powers over the national food supply and food providers, namely granting it the authority to regulate how crops are raised and harvested, to quarantine a geographic area, to make warrantless searches of business records, and to establish a national food tracing system. Concurrently, the bill would impose annual registration fees of $500 on all facilities holding, processing, or manufacturing food and require that such facilities also engaged in the transport or packing of food maintain pedigrees of the origin and previous distribution history of the food. The bill is an enhancement to H.R.759, and to a lesser extent, H.R. 857, previously proposed food safety bills in the 111th Congress. It is also co-sponsored by the same Representatives as the latter two bills, although new to the line of support is Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee. One comment: HR 2749 empowers FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [This control opens the door to CODEX, which I will mention shortly.] ... The following site explains what Codex Alimentarius is : http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqyJGd4Kn7Y Citizens can follow the bill's progress and register their approval or not on http://www.opencongress.org/#pitch
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Re: Food Safety Enchancement Act
Sep 4, 2009 3:40 PM
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I'm inclined to distrust giving an agency that screws up a lot broader powers, but given the problems we have with regulating our food supply what are our alternatives? No sarcasm here I'd really like to hear some ideas.
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Sep 4, 2009 3:00 PM
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If this bill passes and the FDA is given more authority, as far as I'm concerned that is just tantamount to granting them more authority to screw up they way they have with prescription drugs.
Also, if it passes and the government specifies which crops farmers may plant, we will all be eating genetically altered vegetables and fruits and there are no long term studies about their effects on human and animal life.
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Re: Food Safety Enchancement Act
Aug 19, 2009 3:38 PM
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> Perhaps we can reduce the number and size of the kind
> off recalls we've been seeing.
We'd have to stop importing to accomplish that.
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Re: Food Safety Enchancement Act
Aug 19, 2009 2:02 PM
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Perhaps we can reduce the number and size of the kind off recalls we've been seeing.
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Re: Food Safety Enchancement Act
Aug 19, 2009 1:17 PM
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Sweet. That bill would finally kill the last hold-out small food businesses. Then it would only be big con-agra/adm...
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Re: Food Safety Enchancement Act
Aug 19, 2009 11:55 AM
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Ok, this thread has sat here like a bad lox for a day, so I may as well state the obvious. The powers that be have been steadily working to control all the "necessaries" the masses need to exist. How better to control their sheep?
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Food Safety Enchancement Act
Aug 18, 2009 9:20 PM
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HR 2749 has been referred to the Senate.
This bill proposes greater FDA regulatory powers over the national food supply and food providers, namely granting it the authority to regulate how crops are raised and harvested, to quarantine a geographic area, to make warrantless searches of business records, and to establish a national food tracing system. Concurrently, the bill would impose annual registration fees of $500 on all facilities holding, processing, or manufacturing food and require that such facilities also engaged in the transport or packing of food maintain pedigrees of the origin and previous distribution history of the food. The bill is an enhancement to H.R.759, and to a lesser extent, H.R. 857, previously proposed food safety bills in the 111th Congress. It is also co-sponsored by the same Representatives as the latter two bills, although new to the line of support is Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee.
One comment:
HR 2749 empowers FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [This control opens the door to CODEX, which I will mention shortly.] ...
The following site explains what Codex Alimentarius is :
http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html
on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqyJGd4Kn7Y
Citizens can follow the bill's progress and register their approval or not on http://www.opencongress.org/#pitch
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