Food Safety Bill Passes House

Food-safety rules adopted by Congress
(12-22) 04:00 PST Washington - -- The most significant changes to Food Safety Regulation in 70 years were approved by Congress on Tuesday, giving broad new powers to the Food and Drug Administration to step up inspections aimed at preventing outbreaks of disease in the nation's food production system. The law also exempts small, local growers in California and elsewhere from the strictest of new regulations - an exception that recognizes higher risks of contamination among large food producer...

House sends food safety bill to president
WASHINGTON -- The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Legislation passed Tuesday would give the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stricter standards for imported foods. The $1.4 billion bill would also require larger farms and food manufacturers to prepare detailed Food Safety plans and tell the Food an...

Food safety bill passes Congress
WASHINGTON…The House on Tuesday gave final approval to a landmark Food Safety bill designed to bring an archaic system for protecting the nation's food supply into the 21st century and equip the Food and Drug Administration with the tools needed to monitor a complex supply chain that stretches around the world. And President Obama was scheduled to sign the measure into law almost immediately. But the historic effort may run into trouble next year over an old problem -- money. The current ...

Obama to Sign Food Safety Bill Giving FDA Power to Order Recalls
The much-debated measure passed the House 215-144 Tuesday after clearing the Senate by unanimous voice vote the day before. Congress acted after a series of tainted food scares in recent years, including an outbreak of Salmonella that led to the recall of more than half a billion eggs. "This win is a powerful testament to the people across the country who came to Washington to tell their lawmakers how contaminated food had killed their loved ones or left them horribly sick," Jean Halloran of Con...

Food safety bill sent to Obama's desk (Politico)
The House on Tuesday approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food regulatory system - sending the popular Bipartisan measure to the president's desk nearly a year and a half after it passed its first version of the bill. The Food Safety and Modernization Act cleared the House by 215-144 less than two days after Senate Republicans gave a surprise victory to the Legislation's advocates by allowing Democrats to move the package by unanimous consent. Though the Senate originally passed the bil...

US Congress sends Obama food safety bill
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — The US Congress gave final approval Tuesday to a sweeping Food Safety bill in the wake of mass recalls affecting items from tainted eggs to Peanut Butter, pistachios, spinach and milk. The House of Representatives passed the measure by a 215-144 margin, days after the Senate okayed the bill, sending the Legislation to President Barack Obama to sign into law. "With recent outbreaks of food-borne illness from common foods such as spinach, tomatoes, Peanut Butter, ...

House passes legislation overhauling food-safety laws
The House passed a measure to overhaul the nation's food-safety laws by a vote of 215 to 144 Tuesday afternoon, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law as soon as Wednesday. This Story House passes Legislation overhauling food-safety laws Food-safety measure passes Senate in Sunday surprise For food-safety overhaul, Lobbyists rushed to the table Procedural problem threatens Food Safety bill The Food Safety bill View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story The vot...

S 510 Fake Food Safety bill passed by Senate in late-night sneak attack on small farmers and food freedom
Your email Privacy is 100% protected. (NaturalNews) The infamous S.510 "food Food Safety bill" was passed by the US Senate last night in a sneaky, last minute voice vote. All Senators voted for it, Republicans and Democrats alike. Not a single U.S. Senator -- not even Coburn -- objected to its passage. With this vote, the US Senate now sends the bill back to the House of Representatives where it is due for a final vote as HR 2751 that would then send the bill to the White House for a presidentia...

House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws
By WILLIAM NEUMAN NYT The House of Representatives gave final approval on Tuesday to a long-awaited modernization of the nation’s Food Safety laws, voting 215 to 144 to grant the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over food production. The bill, which President Obama has indicated he will sign, is meant to change the mission of the F.D.A., focusing it on preventing food-borne illnesses rather than reacting after an outbreak occurs. The overhaul comes after several major outbreaks...

Food safety overhaul clears last obstacle
WASHINGTON — The House passed a measure to overhaul the nation’s Food Safety laws by a vote of 215 to 144 yesterday, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law as soon as today. The vote marked the final hurdle for a bill that cleared an unusual number of obstacles, despite enjoying Bipartisan support and backing from a wide array of groups across the political spectrum, from Consumers Union to the Chamber of Commerce. “This is a big victory for consumers that finally...

Food safety bill on its way to Obama
Washington, D.C. - The House gave final congressional approval Tuesday to a sweeping overhaul of the way that the Food and Drug Administration regulates most of the nation's food supply. A bill that was all but given up for dead last week was approved by the Senate late Sunday and then approved by the House on Tuesday, 215-144. The Legislation, which would provide the most far-reaching changes in FDA food Regulation in decades, now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Food Safety Bill Passes House, Set To Be Signed
Don't get too excited about the Food Safety bill that the Los Angeles Times is already calling a "landmark" bit of Legislation. In spite of improving Food inspection policies after massive Food recalls, it may not be as powerful as people think. Since funding for the much-needed new inspectors to reduce the time between inspections at major Food producers like Monsanto is not included, Republicans may act to limit the effect of the bill. In fact, they had bee complaining that the federal Food and Drug Ad

Fooe safety bill passes House
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A bill that would shift the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to preventing food-borne illness received final legislative passage Tuesday. The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act would require food processing plants to draw up safety plans, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in an announcement. High-risk imported foods would have to be certified. As many as 76 million people in the United States become sick from food-borne illness every year, with 325,000 ill enou...

House Sends Food Safety Bill to President
Like this Story? Share it: The U.S. Senate voted to give the FDA a sweeping overhaul. As Nancy Cordes reports, the bill is the most significant change to the FDA since the 1930s. (AP) The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Legislation passed Tuesday would give the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stri...

House Passes Sweeping Food Safety Bill
The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Legislation passed Tuesday would give the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stricter standards for imported foods. The $1.4 billion bill would also require larger farms and food manufacturers to prepare detailed Food Safety plans and tell the Food and Drug Administ...

House Passes Food Safety Bill, Sends Measure to President
The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent outbreaks in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Obama for his signature....

H.R.2751 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
Latest Major Action: 12/19/2010 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. Latest Action: 12/20/2010 Message on Senate action sent to the House. ...

House Passes Food Safety Bill That Broadens Power of F.D.A.
The bill is meant to change the mission of the F.D.A., turning it into an agency focused on preventing food-borne outbreaks like the one that originated at this chicken farm in Iowa. This time it is for real. After running a tortured and zig-zag course through Congress, a long-awaited Food Safety bill passed a final, clinching vote on Tuesday in the House of Representatives. President Obama had backed the Legislation and was expected to sign it into law. Supporters, including Democrats and Re...

Schumer: Obama Has 'Done Everything We Asked' On 9/11 Health Bill [Video]
There is at least one New York representative satisfied with President Obama's leadership on the 9/11 Health Care bill. "As for the president, he's done everything we've asked," Senator Chuck Schumer told Andrea Mitchell this morning in an appearance on Morning Joe. "I have no complaints about the president's role on this. He's had a lot on his plate, but on this issue, he has done what we have asked him to do." Schumer's comments come one day after Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney called on the ...

Wednesday's live video events
President Obama will sign a historic piece of Legislation into law this morning, and CNN.com Live will carry the bill-signing ceremony when it happens. 9:15 am ET - Obama signs 'don't ask' Repeal into law - President Obama will sign the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Act of 2010 into law in a signing ceremony at the Department of the Interior. 9:30 am ET - Senate in session - The lame-duck session continues for the Senate today.  A final vote on the New ST...

Senate Passes Defense Authorization Bill
Lawmakers approve Legislation Wednesday morning, send measure back to House for final vote. Get The Page delivered to your inbox. newsletter today!...

Senate approves defense bill, sends it to House
WASHINGTON – The Senate has passed Legislation that authorizes the Pentagon to spend nearly $160 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this Budget year without major restrictions on the conduct of operations. The voice vote on the defense authorization bill came after House and Senate Democrats agreed to strip several provisions, including one that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the Military. The provision that would have overturned the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell...

Senate approves defense bill, sends it to House
Source: The Boston Globe WASHINGTON—The Senate passed Legislation on Wednesday that authorizes the Pentagon to spend nearly $160 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this Budget year without major restrictions on the conduct of operations. The voice vote on the defense authorization bill came after House and Senate Democrats agreed to strip several provisions, including one that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the Military. "The Controversial aspects of this Legislation have be...

Springing to life, food safety bill charts a course to the Presidents desk
I don't feel like getting into the details of a saga with more plots twists than a telenovela; or pontificating at length on a bill that's already had more analysis than Woody Allen's neuroses. Suffice to say that the Food Safety Modernization Act passed the Senate in a surprise Sunday vote and is headed back to the House, where it is widely expected to pass (having already passed twice). For the first time in weeks, the bill seems to have a clear pathway to the president's desk, where it will b...

Smelling GOP betrayal in the Senate-a sneaky vote on S.510-food safety-passes
Washington D.C. (District of Corruptacrats) Conservatives are beginning to get a queasy feeling in the pit of their stomach regarding Republican Senators.  First they back pedal on running their mouths about compromising with the Dems and totally give the store away to Obama on the Bush Tax Rate Extension.  Now they’re beginning to embrace the START Treaty and the scum bags unanimously pass the infamous S.510 "food Food Safety bill".  Leaving Americans with more “big G...