Food Safety in the 111th Congress [electronic resource] : H.R. 2749 and S. 510

Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2010.
Physical Description: 102 pages : digital, PDF file

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Describes H.R. 2749 and Senate Amendment 4715 to S. 510, both to alter current food safety system and increase spending to better meet current obligations to protect consumers from unsafe food. Covers provisions regarding registration, record-keeping, hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls, performance standards, on-farm safety standards, mitigating effects on small business and farming operations, targeting of inspections, use of third parties for imports and for laboratory accreditation, mandatory recall authority, product tracing, foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response, criminal penalties, food imports, Bisphenol A, and paying for food safety. Provides side-by-side comparisons of annual and periodic fees in House-passed H.R. 2749 and Senate Amendment 4715 to S. 510.

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