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Old 03-06-2009, 09:19 PM
 
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OpenCongress - Text of H.R.875 as Introduced in House Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009


(14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.

TITLE II--ADMINISTRATION OF FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM
    • Sec. 201. Administration of national program.


      Sec. 202. Registration of food establishments and foreign food establishments.


      Sec. 203. Preventive process controls to reduce adulteration of food.


      Sec. 204. Performance standards for contaminants in food.


      Sec. 205. Inspections of food establishments.


      Sec. 206. Food production facilities.


      Sec. 207. Federal and State cooperation.


      Sec. 208. Imports.


      Sec. 209. Resource plan.


      Sec. 210. Traceback requirements.

      Sec. 211. Accredited laboratories.
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Old 03-06-2009, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Pees on the House of Representatives. I will continue to give tomatoes to neighbors and dare them (Nancy's playground) to stop me from doing that. I love tomatoes and am the only one at my house that eats them so I always have lots to give away.

I doubt this thing will get beyond Nancy's playhouse, anyway.
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Old 03-07-2009, 12:25 AM
 
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Where does it say that farmer's markets will be outlawed?
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Old 03-07-2009, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Where does it say that farmer's markets will be outlawed?
Are you asking for a link to reality?
With this group, you're kidding, right.
Either that or you thought you were on a credible forum.
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Old 03-07-2009, 01:47 PM
 
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Pees on the House of Representatives. I will continue to give tomatoes to neighbors and dare them (Nancy's playground) to stop me from doing that. I love tomatoes and am the only one at my house that eats them so I always have lots to give away.

I doubt this thing will get beyond Nancy's playhouse, anyway.

Why do you think that this would prevent you from sharing your tomatos with your neighbors?
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Old 03-07-2009, 01:51 PM
 
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Yeah, because no one got sick last year from eating tomatoes or tomato related products.

golfgod
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Old 03-07-2009, 02:37 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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Why do you think that this would prevent you from sharing your tomatos with your neighbors?
Regulating it into impossibility. Looks like NAIS in some form will be made mandatory by this bill too if it passes (of all food not just animals, look at the traceability section towards the end). Full text of bill:

H.R.875

Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)

HR 875 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 875
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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 4, 2009

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h875/text

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Last edited by TnHilltopper; 03-08-2009 at 08:08 AM.. Reason: just provide some key points and a link
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Old 03-07-2009, 02:40 PM
 
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Arctic, please point out where any of this applies to home gardens. I have to go check on my still and don't have time to look through it all.
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Old 03-07-2009, 02:40 PM
 
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Yeah, because no one got sick last year from eating tomatoes or tomato related products.

golfgod
That big tomato scare you mean? Tomatoes were not the culprit...it was peppers grown in Mexico...
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Old 03-07-2009, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Commercially grown produce from Mexico was the problem.

Not your local neighborhood American Farmer.

Are farmers really going to have to pay 150.00 per cow for methane emmissions. I heard something dubbed as the "Cow Fart" was trying to be pushed through.

Why is our government concerned with this small stuff at this point? I don't care which party is trying to push it, it's stupid to have these things on the table.
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