Obama signs bill to improve nation's food safety

President Obama signs into law sweeping food safety bill expanding FDAs powers (Daily Caller)
On Tuesday, President Obama signed one of the most expansive food Regulation bills in living memory, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping Regulation powers over food production and distribution. The billion-dollar Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) quickly and quietly passed through the House and Senate in the final days of the Lame Duck session in response to recent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses throughout the United States. The FSMA is the most sweeping food safety systems ...

Obama to sign bill to improve food safety
US President Barack Obama is set to sign on Tuesday a $US1.4 billion ($A1.38 billion) overhaul of the US Food Safety system, giving Washington new power to increase inspections at food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted products. Congress passed the bill at the end of last year to respond to several serious outbreaks of E. coli and Salmonella poisoning in peanuts, eggs and produce in the past few years. The law will be the first major overhaul of the US Food Safety syste...

Obama to sign bill to improve US food safety
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gets a chance Tuesday to allay Americans' fears about the safety of their food when he signs a $1.4 billion overhaul of the Food Safety system, giving Washington new power to increase inspections at food processing facilities and to force companies to recall tainted products. Congress passed the bill at the end of last year to respond to several serious outbreaks of E. coli and Salmonella poisoning in peanuts, eggs and produce in the past few year...

Obama to sign bill to improve U.S. food safety
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gets a chance Tuesday to allay Americans' fears about the safety of their food when he signs a $1.4 billion overhaul of the Food Safety system, giving Washington new power to increase inspections at food processing facilities and to force companies to recall tainted products. Congress passed the bill at the end of last year to respond to several serious outbreaks of E. coli and Salmonella poisoning in peanuts, eggs and produce in the past few years. ...

Obama to sign food safety bill, could trigger budget battle
President Obama plans to sign the biggest overhaul of Food Safety regulations in more than seven decades today, but the estimated $1.4 billion Price Tag could trigger a Budget battle with the new Republican House. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., incoming chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, told Bloomberg News he may seek to trim back the package during Budget time. Reports Bloomberg: The measure, passed by Congress last month, gives the FDA more po...

New $1.4 Billion Food Safety Legislation Gives Govt Power to Order Recalls, Increase Inspections
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Fred Lucas Fruit waiting to be sold at a farmers' market in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) (CNSNews.com) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have the authority to order recalls of food products, increase inspections, and boost paperwork for food packaging companies under a bill expected to be signed into law this week by President Barack Obama.   Each year, foodborne illnesses strike 48 million Americans, according to the FDA. The Food Sa...

Obama signs bill overhauling food safety system
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s Food Safety system requiring more government inspections at food processing facilities and allowing federal Regulators to order the recall of unsafe products. Conservative lawmakers, sensitive to public frustration over high levels of Government Spending, are balking at the Price Tag. Obama has said Food Safety is a priority for him. Obama signed the bill into law Tuesday, a day before a more ...

Obama to sign bill to improve nation's food safety
WASHINGTON—When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe -- and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch." On Tuesday, Obama is...

Obama to sign bill to improve nation's food safety
WASHINGTON — When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe — and that included his daughter Sasha. "That’s what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don’t want to have to worry about whether she’s going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunc...

Obama to Sign Bill to Improve Nation's Food Safety
(WASHINGTON) — When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe — and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch." (See Health...

Obama to sign bill to improve nation's food safety
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe—and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch." On Tuesday, Obam...

Obama to sign bill to improve nation's food safety
WASHINGTON — When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe - and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch." On Tuesday, Obama ...

Food Safety Overhaul Bill Under Threat In New GOP House, 'Food Police' Inspecting 'Girl Scout Cookies'
NEW YORK -- It's been over 20 months since Linda Rivera ate the cookie dough that almost killed her. The former high School Teacher's aide and mother of six in Las Vegas was rushed to the Hospital in May 2009 after eating spoonfuls of Nestle cookie dough contaminated with a deadly variation of the E. coli Bacteria. Though she survived -- after going into septic shock when her kidneys shut down, having her colon and gallbladder removed and falling into a coma -- she remains hospitalized. Rivera...

Funding uncertain for food safety overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican opponents of new U.S. Food Safety Legislation are promising a fight over its funding and announced their intention even as it became law. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed the bill allowing the Food and Drug Administration to increase inspections of food producers and gives it more enforcement authority. The Legislation follows a series of widespread outbreaks of foodborne illness and food Product Recalls. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebe...

Funding uncertain for food safety overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before President Barack Obama signed Food Safety Legislation, congressional Republicans were promising a fight over funding it. Obama was scheduled to sign the bill on Tuesday. It allows the Food and Drug Administration to increase inspections of food producers and gives it more enforcement authority. The legislation follows a series of widespread outbreaks of foodborne illness and food Product Recalls. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calls it "t...

Funding uncertain for food safety overhaul
By Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON | Tue Jan 4, 2011 2:18pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before President Barack Obama signed Food Safety Legislation, congressional Republicans were promising a fight over funding it. Obama was scheduled to sign the bill on Tuesday. It allows the Food and Drug Administration to increase inspections of food producers and gives it more enforcement authority. The legislation follows a series of widespread outbreaks of foodborne illness and food Product Recalls. He...

New FDA Food Bill
The majority of contamination is at sloppy factory farms not the family farm and that is quite evident in last September’s egg Salmonella outbreak of over 500 million eggs.  The eggs contained Salmonella poison due to lack of standards, lack of regulations and lack of real inspections.  The United States Department of Agriculture gave Wright County Egg Corporation a clean bill of health in their inspection in April of 2010. The farm was a disgracefully filthy farm full of manure...

Obama Poised to Sign Food Safety Bill
President Obama is set to sign a bill on Tuesday that overhauls the nation's Food Safety system. The bill gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration new powers over inspections at food processing facilities. "It will bring our Food Safety system into the 21st century, improving health, saving lives and helping Americans feel confident that when they sit down at their dinner table they won't end up in the Hospital," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Monday du...

McConnell renominated for U.S. District Court vacancy
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday renominated Providence lawyer John J. McConnell Jr. to a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island. The Controversial nomination of the longtime Democratic Fundraiser is one of several that Senate Republicans have already sent back to the White House twice. McConnell will again face the confirmation process in a Senate that, at least on paper, could be more hostile to his nomination because the minority Republicans won several Democratic-...

Boehner in tears as 112th Congress convenes
The 112th Congress convened on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday at noon with the new Speaker of the House John Boehner in tears as he accepted the gavel from the outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The composition of the House of Representatives and the Senate is significantly different in the 112th Congress as compared to the previous Congress.  First of all, Republicans have a majority in the House with 242 members to 193 Democrats.  This means that Representative Boehner, a Republ...

Obama to Sign Food Safety Bill; Doesnt Want to Worry About His Daughter Getting Sick
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 By Darlene Superville and Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Washington (AP) - When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe -- and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry ab...

Obama To Sign Food Safety Bill Today
WASHINGTON — When Salmonella-laced peanut products sickened hundreds during a recent scare, President Barack Obama said consumers should be able to have confidence that their government will keep Peanut Butter-eating Children safe – and that included his daughter Sasha. "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week," Obama said then. "And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch." On Tuesday, ...

Rep. Kingston Threatens To Repeal Food Safety Law
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) ...

A Major Step Forward in Modernizing Our Food Safety System
President Obama signed into law today the Food Safety Modernization Act, the first comprehensive overhaul of our food safety regulations since the 1930s. Each year 48 million Americans contract a foodborne illness, 180,000 people are hospitalized and food illnesses lead to 3,000 deaths. The Act strengthens the role that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can play in setting and enforcing food safety regulations and places a responsibility on everyone involved in food production to maintain t...

Cantor asks Obama to work together on earmarks, spending
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) called President Obama on Wednesday and said he hopes to find common ground on spending issues, Cantor's office said. Cantor and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were officially calling Obama to inform him that the House had chosen its speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). "And I know that many members of our conference are particularly hopeful that we can work together given some of your remarks about Spending Cuts, that you’ll be propos...