House sends food safety bill to president

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Food Safety Bill: House Passes Bill, Sends 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 F...

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 F...

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 passes reform of food safety system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. Food Safety system moved closer on Tuesday toward its biggest overhaul in more than 70 years after the House of Representatives passed Legislation that would increase inspections and give Regulators the power to recall tainted foods. The House voted 215-144 to pass a Food Safety bill. The Legislation has already been passed by the Senate and will now be sent to President Barack Obama, who has supported the measure and is expected to sign it into law. "This...

House passes reform of food safety system
By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON | Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:12pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. Food Safety system moved closer on Tuesday toward its biggest overhaul in more than 70 years after the House of Representatives passed Legislation that would increase inspections and give Regulators the power to recall tainted foods. The House voted 215-144 to pass a Food Safety bill. The Legislation has already been passed by the Senate and will now be sent to President Barack Obama, who ha...

House passes reform of food safety system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. Food Safety system moved closer on Tuesday toward its biggest overhaul in more than 70 years after the House of Representatives passed Legislation that would increase inspections and give Regulators the power to recall tainted foods. The House voted 215-144 to pass a Food Safety bill. The Legislation has already been passed by the Senate and will now be sent to President Barack Obama, who has supported the measure and is expected to sign it into law. "This ...

In Sunday-evening Surprise, Senate Unanimously Passes Food Safety Bill
© Unknown The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not originate in the House - Senate staff had failed to substitute the Food Safety language into a House-originate...

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.

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...

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...

The Yin, Yang of the 111th Congress
The door soon will close on what is turning out to be one of the more enigmatic chapters of American government. During the past two years, Congress has been its most productive in decades, yet ultimately is reviled by the American public. Regardless of how much longer Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decide to hold open the current lame-duck session, they cannot alter the march of time. January will come, and the 111th Congress will be history...

US Congress sends Obama food safety bill (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – 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, an...

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, ...

Food Safety Bill Passes House
(NewsCore) - House lawmakers approved Legislation Tuesday that would seek to bolster federal resources to inspect food production facilities in an effort to help prevent food-borne bacterial contaminations that sicken and kill thousands every year. The bill had been the Victim of a game of congressional ping pong as it was bounced back and forth between the House and Senate several times in recent weeks. The House vote was 215-144. With the House vote, legislative work was completed on the measu...

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

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...

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...

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...

House sends food safety bill to president
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...

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 Food Safety Bill, Raising Powers of F.D.A.
Source: The New York Times 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 Republicans, hailed the measure as a landmark modernization of the nation’s Food Safety system, one that gives the Food and Drug Administration greater authorit...