Food-Safety Funding Likely to Be Targeted by Republican House Majority

Source: Bloomberg


Jan 4, 2011

Food-Safety Funding Likely to Be Targeted by Republican House Majority

By Molly Peterson

President Barack Obama will sign a $1.4 billion food-safety bill today that marks the biggest change to oversight of the food industry since 1938 and sets up a funding fight with Republicans poised to take over the House.

The House subcommittee that monitors the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s budget may be unwilling to spend that much on the legislation, said Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican who is in line to become chairman of the panel.

The measure, passed by Congress last month, gives the FDA more power to police domestic and international producers. It authorizes more inspections, requires most food companies to develop hazard prevention plans and gives the agency the ability to force recalls of tainted products. Implementing the law would cost about $1.4 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

“There’s a high possibility of trimming this whole package back,” Kingston said yesterday in a telephone interview. “While it’s a great re-election tool to terrify people into thinking that the food they’re eating is unsafe and unsanitary, and if not for the wonderful nanny-state politicians we’d be getting sick after every meal, the system we have is doing a darn good job.”



Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-04/food-safety-funding-battle-looms-as-obama-prepares-to-sign-reform-bill.html

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The Neanderthal's are out in force

Harry

Of course it is...if you're trying to cull the herd!

neutralized by defunding it. Why isn't it implicit that if legislation is passed that it has to be given appropriate funding?

He's going to regret that one, hopefully. :D

the republicans are willing to do that for them.

there are people in this country are getting sick after every meal..

There have been way too many salmonella and ecoli finds that make people sick...or worse. People want safe food. The pubs are just plain stupid.

should be pleased.

Clostridium botulinum?

I knew the Repukes would self-destruct. Now if the people would have longer memories and not keep voting them back in.

you know by ENFORCING the laws

Same old same old. We know who owns them.