Takeover May Cool House Passion for Food Safety

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Takeover May Cool House Passion for Food Safety
by Dan Flynn | Nov 03, 2010


Full-blown hearings before Congress's most powerful investigative panel--like those held after the nationwide spinach, peanut, and egg outbreaks, complete with victim testimony and the occasional food-industry executive citing his Fifth Amendment rights---will still take place after Tuesday's elections.

Just not so often.

Food safety enjoys bipartisan support, but had the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee and its effective Subcommittee on Investigations not been in Democratic Party hands during the past four years, food reform would not have gotten this far.

Now that's over as Republicans took back what they needed to resume control of the people's House, and then some.

On the heels of one national foodborne illness outbreak after another, the House on July 30, 2009 was able to pass HB 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act sponsored by Michigan Rep. John Dingell. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/11/take-over-may-cool-house-passion-for-food-safety/

[derby378]

1. We just found some lead in ginger candy sold on American soil...

...and we're being told that support for food safety is bipartisan? I call bullshit on that.

[HopeHoops]

2. Why should Americans worry if their Gulf seafood is 90% oil? That's terrist talk.

WHY do people who eat seafood HATE AMURKA?

No problem. We'll just blame it on Obama. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

[Zoeisright]

3. Well, that's just basic math. Repukes in power = more dead Americans.

It's simple, really.