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[Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>]

To the list,

Nine people are dead because of a filthy peanut plant in Georgia. A
proposal to let the FDA concentrate on drugs and remove food to a
separate agency might prevent future food-borne disease outbreaks.

To read today's story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the
investigation,  put "peanuts salmonella Atlanta" into
Google.

Betty Mayfield

At 02:27 PM 3/15/2009, Dennis Norton wrote:

(snip)

Every operation serving or selling food needs to have a food safety system in place that is designed specifically to guarantee the food being served is safe to eat. This specific food safety system is called HACCP for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. HACCP is a system comprised of 7 principles that are to be applied to a written food safety program focusing on the food in your operation.
(snip)
 This bill wants 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.  It will be the Food Safety Administration that will inforce HACCP requirements.
(snip)
 The government is simply going to remove any of these responsibilities from the USDA and give them to the FSA.  Not more government......simply a division of government.
Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
Office (815) 648-4467
Mobile (815) 228-2174
Fax (609) 228-2174
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
http://www.revivalhymn.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Deb S

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:49 AM

Subject: [NAFEX] H.R. 875 more trouble from the government for small producers

Take a look at this bill

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

It looks like it is more privacy invasion as the government under the guise of food safety wants to register every "food establishment" (which looks like it includes anyone who produces any food on their property). 

If you find it very disturbing as I did, here's the link to write your Congressional rep and tell them so

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

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