More FDA authority won't improve food safety

by Gregory Conko on Forbes.com

Excerpt:

"In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off for at least another year. User fees added to the Senate version run afoul of a constitutional requirement that tax measures originate in the House. That's good news for consumers because this expansion of Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority would waste billions of taxpayer dollars without making our food supply any safer."

"Doubling the rate of inspections of the tens of thousands of food production facilities in the U.S. would account for most of the bill's $1.4 billion four-year cost. But does anyone really believe that a single inspection every three to five years would do much to catch unsafe producers?"

"Complying with HACCP rules is also hugely expensive, which may be one reason why the country's biggest food producers support the legislation. Big companies already have their own voluntary HACCP programs. But the new law would force those costs on smaller competitors and shift substantial quality control responsibilities onto the small farms and other producers that feed their supply chains."

"A last-minute amendment to the bill would exempt the smallest producers, but would leave tens of thousands of small and mid-sized farms and food stands to be crushed under the weight of rules designed for some of the world's largest food processors."

"In the end, increasing the FDA's regulatory authority in this way would waste taxpayer money on activities unlikely to improve safety, while driving many small and medium-sized producers out of the market and raising the cost of the food we eat."

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FDA knows full well, that the problem is with the Auschwitz-style factory farms, where millions of animals are dumped together. Where chickens are infected with E-coli in their ovaries, producing infected eggs. Where the cattle is fed GM corn and soy, they cannot digest because that is not their natural food! Cattle is a grazing animal feeding on grass! Can't digest grains, especially if they are GM. Cattle is also ridden with E-coli. 

And what the FDA does to prevent all this? They are raiding organic and raw milk producing small farms with full force hand in hand with the FBI!