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fda chief calls for stronger food safety bill
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a bill to overhaul the food safety system needs to be stronger and incorporate more funding, food and drug administration (fda) commissioner margaret hamburg told a senate committee hearing on thursday. the proposed legislation is the companion bill to the food safety enhancement act that passed the house back in july, and hamburg said that she would like to see the senate version more closely resemble that legislation. crucially, the senate bill does not allow the fda to seize foods that fail to apply hazard analysis and controls as ‘adulterated’, as specified by the house. hamburg said that this exclusion would blunt the fda’s tools for enforcing safety requirements. speaking at a hearing of the health, education, labor and pensions (help) committee, hamburg called the legislation “a major step in the right direction” toward implementing recommendations made by the food safety working group set up by president obama in march. access to records however, hamburg criticized the senate bill – the food safety modernization act – for omitting a clause that would give the fda authority to access food records during safety inspections, as recommended by the group. “routine records access is a critical component of a food safety regulatory framework and is one of the most significant gaps in fda’s existing authority,” she said. she noted that the us department of agriculture has routine records access for the products it regulates, and the fda also has routine access to records for products other than foods. broad backing on the other hand, the bill does include several measures that have garnered strong bipartisan support as well as broad industry backing, including giving the fda the authority to order a product recall if a company fails to act voluntarily, increasing the frequency of facility inspections, better verifying that food imports meet us safety requirements, and requiring that manufacturers keep more thorough records. it is co-sponsored by five republicans and six democrats. funding fears the house bill had an estimated cost of $3.7bn, partly funded by a $500 annual fee per facility – itself a compromise on an earlier $1,000 per facility proposal – but the senate version does not specify fees for manufacturers and hamburg did not estimate its cost. although she said that the fda supports the intent of increased inspections, she added: “however, we are concerned that the bill does not provide a guaranteed consistent funding source to help fda fulfill its new responsibilities.” also speaking at the hearing, food safety director of the center for science in the public interest caroline smith dewaal said: “it is rare to see the level of consensus reflected among such diverse consumer and industry organizations on the need to fix our national food safety system. congress can, with simple changes, take action this year to make food safer for american consumers.” calls to overhaul america’s food safety system intensified this year on the back of a spate of multi-state foodborne illness outbreaks. support from food manufacturers also strengthened after a salmonella outbreak in peanut products led to more than 700 illnesses and nine deaths, as well as one of the largest product recalls in us history, at an estimated cost of at least $1bn.
Source :foodqualitynews.com
Date :
23
October
2009
Category :
food industries Economic
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at a time when so many resources are being pumped into improving consumer health through food, it is pitifully ironic that more and more people are getting sick or dying from what they eat because of safety slips. a new report published last week by the us centers for disease control and prevention reveals a 50 percent increase in e coli infections since 2004, and a monstrous 78 percent increase in vibrio infections - caused by eating raw shellfish - over the past decade.
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all stakeholders have a “duty to work together” to deliver safe food, delegates at the global food safety conference were told overnight, with the industry needing to unite in order to shore up consumer confidence in the food supply chain. in welcoming a record-breaking 675 delegates from 39 countries to the conference, managing director of the consumer goods forum*, jean-marc saubade, said consumer confidence had been shaken the world over, following a series of high-profile food safety incidents.
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food manufacturers, in creating quality products, must be mindful of the potential choking hazards associated with their products, says intertek. the global food quality and safety analysts said that a training seminar they are hosting at their us facility in october provides in depth analysis and understanding of crucial food safety issues related to choking and choking prevention.
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the adoption of 44 new and amended food safety standards by the codex alimentarius commission signals the coming changes that member countries will make to their legislation over the next year. at a six-day meeting that ended last friday in rome, the international food safety body also established a comprehensive set of risk analysis principles to help governments establish their own standards, especially for food items that are not covered by codex.
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calls emerge in south africa for the country to streamline food safety standards in the wake of the uk's sudan 1 scare. according to reports in the country's business day journal, the body that represents south africa's €25 billion consumer goods industry - the consumer goods council - resolved at a meeting last month to form a unified food standards body in south africa, similar to the european union's.
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wal-mart announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. the new process controls standards and goals are additions to a food safety program that already requires ground beef suppliers to test for e.coli o157:h7 and achieve prevention-based certification against one of the global food safety initiative (gfsi) internationally recognized standards.
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a coalition of different environmental organisations, the zero mercury working group, claims that there are risks associated with eating fish due to its mercury content, and consumers need to be made aware of these through fish and seafood product labelling. the group maintains that the proposed european union regulation for labelling foodstuffs, currently being considered in the european parliament, should include advice for vulnerable groups about the mercury content of fish and seafood.
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