The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and Orrin Hatch

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US Senate Bill S.510 entitled the “FDA Food Safety Modernization Act” has been making it’s rounds through senate committees since March 2009. During it’s time under the scrutiny of the committee Utah’s Sr. Senator Orrin Hatch added his name to the short list of Co-Sponsors of the bill. Early this morning the bill was brought up for a vote on the floor of the Senate and passed.

With a good number of the current sitting members of the House of Representatives sitting in a “Lame Duck” position, they have indicated that this bill will most likely find a paved road through the House and quickly make it’s way to the Presidents desk for final approval or Veto.

This bill stands the chance of turning your life upside down, because it will directly affect both the way you will acquire food for yourself and your family, as well as the price that you pay for it.

Large corporate food producers will probably adjust to the new regulations fairly easily, but your smaller local and regional food producers will suffer the biggest blow from the new regulations, and lacking sufficient money/man power to fulfill on the new web of restraint, may endup out of business.

This bill also has the potential of making it difficult for you to even grow your own food through additional regulation of seed production, or get you thrown into jail if you sell a cucumber to your neighbor without first getting your “food production facilities” AKA, Garden approved by Federal Bureaucrats.

Listen in as we discuss the principles that surround this issue, and look at the role and position of our illustrious Senator Hatch in this fiasco.

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