This bill is a blatant violation of the 10th Amendment. How can putting the entire food supply of the U.S. under the control of one person (The Secretary of Health and Human Services) not be fascism. This bill is not about food safety. It is about protecting the profits of the industrial food processors whose "modern" food processing methods have been the cause of the recent e-coli and salmonella break outs. Who are the supporters of this bill and are exempt from its jurisdiction. In S.510 farms and restaurants are exempt. CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) where thousands of animals live in their manure are considered farms. The purpose of S.510 and HR.2749 is to drive Organic Farmers out of business.

I remain skeptical about whether the FDA will actually make a difference after they're given the authority and resources in this bill. It'll take several years to collect and aggregate data for the statistics showing one way or the other. At least the aspects of it that made it such a threat to small farmers (and, of course thier customers's ability to buy from them) have been ameleorated by the Tester Amendment.
I'm still convinced that FSMA does not address the real problems with food we have - that we eat too much preserved, processed foods, that we eat too much of it. We will have to change fundamentally the way that we think about, eat, prepare and produce most of the food in this country before we'll see changes to food-related disease in this country (obesity, diabetes, etc). We need to think more about what we eat, what went into bringing it to our tables and spend more time preparing and enjoying it!

@Daniel
FSMA is not about food, it's about the APPEARANCE OF trying to prevent certain microbes in food from making it to market. It was written in a way that pursues that illusory goal at all costs - even if that cost is that we are left us with nothing but processed franken-foods produced by fewer than a dozen multi-billion dollar corporations, and wild birds near your chickens gets your farm shut down by the feds. At least the Tester Amendment gives small farmers and producers SOME breathing room while local food economies continue to expand.
I'm sure the germophobes those capitalizing on fear about food-borne illness will continue to try to pass the original version of this legislation again in the future (because I think they believe in a flawed notion that we can somehow unplug ourselves from the biosphere) so we'll need to be vigilant to stop them next time, too.