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New Congress may simply starve food-safety bill to death [VIDEO]
Rep. Jack Kingston, the incoming chair of the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the FDA, doesn't think there's anything unsafe about the nation's food supply.
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Food safety bill passes House, skates to prez's desk at last
After months of being hopelessly embroiled in Senate dysfunction, the Food Safety Modernization Act has triumphed in the House. Again. This time, it will go to Obama's desk and be signed into law.
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Tester amendment protecting local food production now attached to food-safety bill
Last night, consumer groups joined forces with the sustainable agriculture camp, agreeing to enough compromises in the Tester-Hagan amendment for its protections of "family-scale farms" and small processors to be included in the package of amendments agreed to by both sides in advance. This is great news.
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Industry groups putting the screws to senators over food-safety bill amendments
The Tester amendment protecting small farms and processors is still in play, while Feinstein's bisphenol-A ban appears dead in the water.