The Obama administration is requesting cuts at most agencies in its 2014 budget, released on Wednesday, but seeking a significant increase in funding at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help the agency implement the monumental Food Safety Modernization Act.
While the administration’s budget is very unlikely to be
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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) is urging the Obama administration to not weaken food safety protections in initiatives with Canada as the two countries work to hash out the details of the Regulatory Cooperation Council and the Beyond the Border program.
“There are significant differences between the two countries’ food safety
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My father was a World War II veteran, double Purple Heart recipient, avid sports fan, and all-American hero. Tragically, it was a cantaloupe laced with the lethal bacteria Listeria that ultimately killed him. Always true to form, though, he did not go down without a fight. For nearly three months,
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget were sued this week for the months-long delay in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act. President Obama signed FSMA into law in January 2011, but 4 of the most central regulations mandated by the law
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The deadly Salmonella outbreak linked to Indiana-grown cantaloupe in 20 states is the latest in a series of foodborne illness crises that underscore the need to implement rules in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Pew Health Group told Food Safety News on Tuesday. Parts of FSMA — signed
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Foodborne illness victims and their families joined the Make Our Food Safe Coalition Tuesday in urging the Obama administration to release key food safety rules that have now been stuck in review for seven months. Though President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act into law in Jan. 2011, drafts
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The Obama administration is threatening to veto a house agriculture spending bill that would cut funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and provide a small increase for food safety funding. The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a Statement of Administration Policy on Monday that strongly
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