Safe Food Act of 2007

To establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

2/16/2007--Introduced.
Safe Food Act of 2007 - Establishes the Food Safety Administration to administer and enforce food safety laws. Directs the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration to:
(1) promulgate regulations to ensure the security of the food supply from all forms of contamination;
(2) implement federal food safety inspection, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health;
(3) develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; and
(4) prioritize federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit in reducing food-borne illness. Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws. Requires the Administrator to:
(1) administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different food and the processing of different food;
(2) establish standards for processors of food and food establishments;
(3) establish a certification system for foreign governments or food establishments seeking to import food to the United States;
(4) establish requirements for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale;
(5) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence;
(6) establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food;
(7) rank and analyze hazards in the food supply;
(8) establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and
(9) conduct research relating to food safety. Sets forth provisions regarding prohibited acts, administrative detention, condemnation, temporary holds, recall, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistle blower protection, and civil actions.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
• and 22 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Robert Brady [D, PA-1]
  • Rep. Michael Capuano [D, MA-8]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
  • Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1]
  • Rep. Barney Frank [D, MA-4]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. Doris Matsui [D, CA-5]
  • Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4]
  • Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Michael Michaud [D, ME-2]
  • Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
  • Rep. Steven Rothman [D, NJ-9]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 2 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
February 16, 2007

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• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Feb 16, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Feb 16, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Feb 16, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Feb 16, 2007.

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