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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 09:23:19 -0500

Bob; there's technically a 'raw milk license' in PA, but anyone who has one will tell you that they are harassed beyond belief by the PDA. People doing 'cow shate' (where other people don't buy the milk, but buy a share of the cow) are regularly dragged into court. I don't know if they win or not, but who wants to live that way? Their plan is working.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety


Lynn, is there now a way around the law in PA? What I mean is could you call yourself a "co-op" and let anyone instantly join the "co-op" if they wanted to buy cheese or raw milk, etc? I guess not, or you would be doing so,......... 'just thinking out loud....

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 7:04 AM
Between this and the Ohio story, small farmers will
eventually give up. They
will get jobs in town and raise and eat their own healthy
organic food, and
let everyone else eat factory food. The rest of the country
will lose. It
should be going the opposite way, but isn't.

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Food Safety


> this article is in this am NYT. Read the second
paragraph carefully. The
> beauracrats at the FDA are getting ready for much more
power during the
> upcoming administration and congress. They desire to
stop food problems
> "at the souce" including
"domestic" sources. Now, you really think they
> will be going after big ag, or will it be the small
farmer who becomes
> regualted to the point of t errorism
>
>
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> Editorial
>
> Grading Progress on Food Safety
>
>
> Published: December 6, 2008
>
> The Food and Drug Administration is claiming
considerable progress over
> the past year in protecting the nation’s food supply
from pathogens and
> toxic substances. But the steps described in its
self-assessment warrant
> only a so-so grade.
>
> The agency released a report this week describing what
officials call a
> “hugely ambitious” campaign to redesign the whole
approach to food
> inspection. The goal is to root out tainted food —
whether produced abroad
> or in this country — at the earliest stages of the
production and
> distribution process while being ready to respond
quickly if pathogens
> start reaching consumers.
>
> The philosophy is sound. Imported foods are the focus
of greatest concern.
> And it makes good sense to detect and eliminate
contamination at a
> manufacturing or distribution plant abroad rather than
trying to intercept
> tainted products at our borders. It is encouraging
that the agency has
> already hired staff for new offices in China and India
that will try to
> ensure the safety of food products before they are
exported. It also has
> plans to open offices in Europe, Latin America and the
Middle East as
> well.
>
> The agency also deserves credit for approving the use
of irradiation to
> kill bacteria on spinach and iceberg lettuce; for
developing methods to
> detect even trace levels of melamine, a contaminant
that has sickened a
> horrifying number of infants in China; for inspecting
some 5,900 “high
> risk” domestic food establishments; and for starting
to hire more than 100
> new employees to conduct inspections and collect
samples.
>
> None of this is enough to ease concerns over the
safety of the food
> supply. The F.D.A. regulates some 65,000 food firms in
this country.
> Inspecting 5,900 of them is only a modest beginning.
While it is useful to
> have offices abroad, it is not yet clear how
effectively they will be
> given some countries’ resistance to admit problems.
>
> By most accounts, the F.D.A. is still vastly
underfinanced to carry out
> its widening responsibilities. The Obama
administration and the next
> Congress will need to determine how much more money
can be provided and
> what additional legislative authority is needed to
trace contaminants
> through the food supply and recall tainted products.
>
> They should also re-examine whether the Bush
administration’s heavy
> reliance on the private sector to ensure safety needs
to be rebalanced
> with more effective and vigilant regulation.
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06sat2.html
>
>
>
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