facing the next huge recall made them move: The Kroger Co. is recalling select pet food packages from stores in 19 states fearing some of these products may contain aflatoxin, a toxic chemical byproduct that could be harmful to animals.

Too bad the amendment to HR 2475 STILL runs afoul of the House Parliamentarian's finding.

It needed to be amended in the HOUSE to be valid, NOT THE SENATE! Origination rules under the parliamentary rules of the Congress AND the Constitution include origination language to include new language in gut-and-amend bills, including this one.

So, assuming that the Congress follows its own rules, we're back to the same problem S510 has, unless they strike Section 107.

Of course, since the bill is a giant dodo in the first place, it needs to die. Food safety is a STATES issue, not the Feds. The FDA and the USDA are NOT the consumer or small business owner's friends.

But the statists in DC simply want to use food as yet another means to implement corporatism, socialism and police powers that are anathema to proper constitutionally-limited government, consumer choice, and personal freedom and responsibility.

They can take my garden, never. I refuse to poison myself with Big Agriculture's GMOs and toxins. I will grow my own and grow it the right way.

I believe they used HR 2751 - a cash-for-clunkers bill - not HR 2475, which deals with foreign affairs.

Well, the last time the Food Safety Modernization Act went back to the House, it was discovered that it contained an unconstitutional revenue-raising provision, a right not granted by the US Constitution to the Senate. Do you suppose that this time the House will discover some of the other unconstitutional provisions in it, such as the section that violates the Fourth Amendment.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution requires every official requesting entry to obtain a warrant, based on probable cause, and signed by a judge. The FSMA blatantly attempts to eliminate this protection against warrant-less search and seizure by giving the Secretary the right to search, seize and destroy private property with no signed warrant by a judge. According to this unconstitutional provision, all the Secretary needs in order to search, seize and destroy private property is a “reason to believe” rather than probable cause and a warrant.

We’re being conditioned to accept warrant-less searches at airports, with TSA officials claiming they have the right to use technology to essentially strip-search and photograph innocent adults and the right to physically molest people of all ages. Now we’re being told that another federal agency must be allowed to violate our Fourth Amendment rights to keep us “safe.” But, understand this well: No one is safe when the rule of law is abandoned.

Once again, it is necessary for the House to reject the FSMA on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

Disappointing ...there is another side to this bill..NOT GOOD NEWS for small farmers and supporters of locally grown farmers markets...This bill is driven by the unholy alliance we now have with big government and big corporations. I Suggest that Americans educate themselves by learning all they can including the conditions that refugees from Cuba flee from.... where the government has control of every chicken on every farm....
The stories are hair raising and the truth is conditions are bad enough compel young men to risk their lives rowing to America! That should speak volumes.....We don't need more government control in our lives....ditto's to Tannim's comments...I am saving seeds in protest!!!

You lucky guy or mam! You can afford having your own garden in an area where you can grow and raise (including meat) year round. Instead of building a Mosque at Ground Zero the should make gardens for the people in NY City. I just don't see what they would grow at this time of the year. You must be from a different planet far away from any reality of this world.

Aflatoxin is a NATURALLY OCCURING TOXIN not a "chemical by-product". Aflatoxin is secreted by a fungus that's found on moldy corn and grain, specifically Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. Most likely, the aflatoxin found its way into the pet food through moldy corn meal which is a predominant ingredient in cheap pet foods. It's not destroyed during the pet food production.

Aflatoxin can cause liver cirrhosis and liver failure in animals. Humans have high tolerance to the effects but can still become ill, especially children. It can be found in grains, peanuts, tree nuts, sunflower seeds, chiles and spices.

I try to avoid feeding my pets anything that has corn-meal or grain-meal as one of the primary ingredients. IMO, the number one ingredient in a high quality dog or cat food should be meat protein (not meat by-products or grains).

What a bunch of slanted fallderall this article is! Not ONE mention of why millions of people DON'T want this bill. It's all, "Wooo! What a victory for the people!"

That's how the oil trusts played the media when they tricked the people into voting for the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The wealthy, knowing that the poor and middle class would vote FOR anything that the Big Boys complained about, pulled the "Oh no, Br'er Bear! PLEASE don't throw me into the brair patch!" card and begged the people NOT to vote for it because it would hurt big business. Big business was BEHIND the Fed and had control of it.

If you want absolute control of the population, what would you want to have the right to control? Food and water anyone?

Soylent Green anybody?

That's where this is heading.

The powers that be are already polluting the water with fluoride and Lithium to dumb us down. They put toxic chemicals in the food to 1) leave us addicted and 2) kill us slowly (so we have to use more medical services). (read: Natural Cures they don't want you to know about by Kevin Trudeau)

Call your representative and tell him/her that you want a choice. S-510 doesn't give you that choice. It's the GMO way or the highway.

Kill this bill as many times as it comes up...before it kills you.

A strong effort was made to protect the small farmer and farmers' markets from undue and costly paperwork. The Tester/Hagan Amendment hopefully will do that, but this bill has been bounced around so often it remains to be seen exactly was will be final result, and if it will get pass the House. If it does pass, the real affect won't be known for several months. We can only hope and pray that it will be fair to all parties concerned.

Thank you to the Senate, for realizing that this bill is indeed supported widely and had, in fact, been approved by majority in both Houses of Congress. To the President and into law!

YES!!! Make our food safer -

in reading the book SLAUGHTERHOUSE by Gail A Eisnitz you can see how our so-called Usda Protect us and how big companies and companies that have our congress owning dump their sick and dying animals in the food chain. They destroy every thing they get thier gredy and traitorist hands on I have been calling and doing everything in my power but they only hear the big money. Soon our country will be like the poorest and sickest nations of the world

Food safety begins with independently tested crops whose seeds have altered DNA from soil and plant pathogens, other species. This is solely done to give the seed characteristics that Nature did not design. It is unnatural for corn and cotton to carry the DNA of soil virus Bacillus Thringensis. Yet, every cell of the new seed and plant contains this laboratory inserted DNA and no health data has been acquired on how this will affect people and animals who have not survived by eating this new technology.

We are lab rats, except no one is keeping track. The youngest children and animals are having severe health problems like GERD from these new organisms. GERD may lead to esophageal cancer. This are new diseases which are showing up since these new "foods" have come to market.

The sole purpose of shooting foreign DNA into seeds is to make the seeds into pesticides in the gut of insects, but they also replicate into the gut of animals and people.

Or soy, canola, sugar beets and other crops with foreign bacterium, that create plants to tolerate incessant chemical pesticide spraying. These produce new allergies, and unknown consequences. The additional herbicides create super weeds, which need more toxic pest controls to eliminate because the chemical pest controls sterilize the soils, and poison the waters and fish.

One cannot have healthy agriculture until genetic engineering is addressed, tested with peer reviewed studies and removed from the market until these processes take place.

Without peer reviewed studies and tests, these crops are not proven safe.

In response to Nicole Johnson, search and seizure protection does not extend to businesses under government oversight. Grow your own food and you're protected. Crops for commercial sale get inspected and regulated. You STILL DO have the right to refuse entry without a warrant, however you will have no longer be allowed to continue doing business legally. This happens across many many businesses. Think restaurants and the Health Dept for one.