H.R.875 - Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services 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. view all titles (2)

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  • Official: To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services 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. as introduced.
  • Short: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 as introduced.

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12/03/10
RE: H.R.875

With that said, Obama has successfully enacted legislation like the Clean Energy Act, but he has also conceded the enacting of such Bill...

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11/22/10
Will Glenn Beck Kill the Food Safe...

YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEMISE OF AMERICA! these billls HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 completely take away rights from everyone! 1....

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11/18/10
S.510, Food Control (aka, People C...

To understand this abnormal behavior, we have to return to the scene of the 2009 crime, when the father of S.510 was introduced into the...

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11/16/10
La réforme territoriale définitive...

Quand on voit le military act qui grave dans le marbre la loi d'exception du patriot act, quand on voit aussi les tentatives pour faire ...

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10/11/10
Real Food Tyranny is Threatening U...

(NaturalNews) Just when we thought the House Resolution 875 (HR 875) of 2009 might fade into obscurity, along comes a Senate version of ...

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08/13/10
The Power Of Community

Quit worrying about HR 875, going to jail or getting fined $1 million for growing your own food; that has to be disinformation. Even if ...

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08/12/10
The Power of Community

Quit worrying about HR 875, going to jail or getting fined $1 million for growing your own food; that has to be disinformation. Even if ...

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06/08/10
IOM Recommends Food Safety Central...

the sponsor of the House version (HR 875), told the Huffington Post that "this notion that we're destroying backyard farms is absurd," s...

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04/29/10
Oppose the Food Safety Modernizati...

Similar to HR 2749 and HR 875, it would expand the FDA’s control over the right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, serve or eat ev...

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04/29/10
Grocery Shopping with Food Safety ...

Congress introduced legislation last year, called HR 875 (S510 in the Senate) Food Safety Modernization Act to establish a Food Safety A...

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01/23/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has been getting a lot of attention on OpenCongress for her sponsorship of the controversial Food Safety Modernizatio...

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01/23/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/23/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/23/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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01/22/12
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut (D)...

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