Food Safety Regulations

The Senate on Tuesday handed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food safety system, right after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened 1000’s and led significant food makers to join client advocates in demanding stronger govt oversight.

The laws, which passed by a vote of 73-25, would greatly strengthen the Food and Drug Administration, an company that in latest decades focused much more on policing medical goods than ensuring the safety of foods. The bill is supposed to get the federal government to crack down on unsafe foods just before they harm individuals rather than soon after outbreaks happen.

Each versions of the bill would grant the F.D.A. new powers to recall tainted foods, improve inspections, demand accountability from food businesses and oversee farming. But neither model would consolidate overlapping functions on the Department of Agriculture and almost a dozen other federal agencies that oversee numerous aspects of food safety, generating coordination among the many agencies a continuing problem.

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