The Dean of the House of Representatives is calling on Congress to “adequately fund” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so it can implement the sweeping food safety law President Obama signed in January.
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) sent a letter to the leadership on both the House Committee on the Budget and the …
Food Safety News Nice List 2010
It’s Christmas and time for Food Safety News to present its second annual Nice List.
For the nice, being on our Nice List is as good as it gets, although those named should not expect anything more (from us) than this:
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Food Bill’s Author Fighting for His Political Life
Could this be the “last hurrah” for Rep. John Dingell, dean of the U.S. House and author of the food safety bill?
His Republican opponent, medical doctor Rob Steele, leads Dingell by four points, according to a new independent poll of Michigan’s 15th Congressional District.
The survey, conducted by telephone on Oct. 4 of 300 …
Lawmakers Spar Over Holdup on Food Safety Bill
In response to media reports that Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) insistence on a controversial bisphenol-A (BPA) ban is holding up the pending food safety bill, Congressman John Dingell (D-MI), a force behind the lower chamber’s version of the bill, sent a public letter yesterday to Feinstein, urging her to reconsider her “obstruction” on the issue.…
Stage Set for Food Safety Bill
Last Thursday, the Senate passed the Wall Street reform bill, handing President Obama his second major legislative victory of the year. The contentious bill, which narrowly passed though the Senate on a 59-39 vote, took over the Senate upon its introduction and halted the progress of most other legislation in the body, including S. 510, …
Dingell to Senate: ‘Now is the time’
Congressman John Dingell (D-MI), currently the longest-serving member of Congress and a fierce advocate for tougher food safety laws, is again calling out the Senate for stalling on pending food safety legislation to modernize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“Americans are being forced to play a game of Russian roulette with the food they …
Dingell Calls for Action on Food Fraud
“At US dinner tables, the food may be a fraud,” read the Seattle Times’ headline, “Federal regulators not doing enough to curb ‘food fraud’,” said The Dallas Morning News. This week, newspapers in several cities carried a Washington Post article illustrating the “rising” food fraud in the U.S.
“‘Food fraud’ has been documented in fruit …
More Calls for Senate to Act on Food Safety
Beltway insiders are hearing more calls to pass the FDA food safety reform bill pending in the Senate. This week, The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, featured several Op-Eds which highlighted the bill’s bipartisan support and urged the Senate to act.
Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in …
Dingell: Senate ‘Slow to Act’ on Food Safety
U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-MI), the longest serving member of the House and a longtime advocate for stronger food safety laws, recently told Washington, DC’s The Hill that the Senate “has been slow to act” on S.510, the pending food safety bill.
Dingell criticized the Senate for not taking up S.510, the FDA Food Safety …