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Food Safety Bill Contains Concerns for Agriculture |
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Written by National Corn Growers Association
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
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Washington, DC - Prior to the full committee markup of the Food Safety Enhancement Act, H.R. 2749, in the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, the National Corn Growers Association and several other agriculture commodity groups sent a letter to Chairman Henry Waxman outlining their concerns with the legislation.
While some progress was made during full committee markup, the passed legislation does include some of our initial concerns such as expanded authorization for to the Food and Drug Administration to mandate facility-specific product safety standards, allowing on-farm inspection and regulation and access to on-farm records which bring concerns of confidentiality. A positive outcome of the markup was that farms will be excluded from registration fees.
The food safety bill passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday and will proceed to the House floor for a vote. |
