H.R.875
Title: 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.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3]
(introduced 2/4/2009)
Cosponsors (41)
Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture,
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of
the committee concerned.
Supporters of organic faming are rallying to defeat this bill. A group called Save Organic Farming claims that the bill, backed by Monsanto,
"... would require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect
sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to "make sure there is no
danger to the public food supply". If
this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds will be allowed, only
Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now causing unexpected
diseases in humans."
However, another website refutes the claims of the people fighting to defeat this bill here http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp.
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