Oppose Food Safety Bill in Senate

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Dear Supporter,

This Wednesday, November 18th, the U.S. Senate plans to consider a massive

" food safety " bill entitled " The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act " .

This bill (S. 510) will strengthen the forces that for the past fifty

years have led to unsafe, nutritionally compromised food and will undermine

growing efforts working to thwart those forces. (To read the bill and view

co-sponsors, go to _www.thomas.loc.gov_

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Modernization Act " in the search field). _

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, " Experience should teach

us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes

are beneficial " . The Senate's food safety initiative, though intended to

be beneficial, follows the House version by leading food down the Food and

Drug Administration (FDA) " modernization " path that Congress designed for

drugs. (This House version, H.R. 2749, has the same drawbacks and originally

failed; later in the same week it was passed under different rules).

Click here to send a letter to your Senators urging them to amend or

oppose S. 510!_

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The FDA's drug modernization approach places high-cost drugs at the heart

of a dangerously costly health system, contributes to thousands of

drug-related deaths, and leads to the approval of many unsafe drugs that end up

being recalled. It also makes FDA drug regulation perilously dependent on the

financial support the agency receives from drug company fees.

S. 510 - in keeping with this flawed drug modernization path - gives

powerful incentives to large, concentrated food manufacturers (the sources of

the most significant threats to our food so far) while undercutting producers

that are smaller, safer, and often local.

_Today Citizens for Health launches its food safety campaign and our first

goal is to amend or defeat S 510. If the bill passes without any

meaningful, substantive changes, we will seek a Presidential Veto. If the bill

that

is finally signed fails to address our concerns sufficiently we will work

to establish and implement regulations to minimize the negative impact on

food safety that will surely result, and we will redouble our efforts to

maximize the food choices and food and health information available to all.

And, remember: we are not opposing food safety. We are working to advance

it by opposing misguided attempts to build a flawed, drug-like bureaucratic

structure on top of a crumbling food safety foundation that desperately

needs to be shored up and repaired.

We need your help to win - click here and send your letter to your

Senators now!_

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During this process we will regularly address key food safety issues and

the food safety decisions we make - as a nation and as individuals - that

shape our lives. It is essential that we all have the opportunity to

understand how these issues and decisions affect our ability to trust our food

supply. In a very real sense we, as a nation, are what we eat.

We welcome a robust discourse - here at _Citizens.org_

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your community, and in policy. And, ultimately, we all look forward to

safer, healthier, more trustworthy food.

On a final note, consider this remark by Mark Twain: " No man's life,

liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. " Now is the

time to act to minimize the damage that will result from passage of S. 510.

I thank you for staying involved in this discourse and look forward to

hearing from you. Take a moment to share your comments at

_blogcomments_ (blogcomments) , and don't

forget to _click

here now to send a letter to your Senators_

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oppose or overhaul S. 510.

James S. Turner, Esq.

Board Chair

Citizens for Health

 

 

 

 

 

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