Senators vow to block food-safety bill

[question everything]

Friday, July 28, 2006
Senators vow to block food-safety bill
California lawmakers say measure would gut 20-year-old Prop. 65 safeguards.

By DENA BUNIS
The Orange County Register

WASHINGTON – With a bowl of lead-contaminated Mexican candy on the table between them, California's senators vowed this morning to do all they can to prevent a bill that would require national rules for food safety from passing.

The National Uniformity for Food Act, said Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both Democrats, would gut the food safety protections included in California's Proposition 65, passed 20 years ago,

The bill, authored by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., would ban states from setting requirements or posting warnings on foods that differed from federal rules. "This bill is a major assault on California's initiative," Feinstein said at a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing. "On behalf of my colleague Senator Boxer and I, if this bill were to come to the floor, we would use every parliamentary device available to us to stop it."

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Peter Hutt, a former Food and Drug Administration lawyer, said California's law has led to unnecessary litigation. But William Hubbard, who recently retired from the FDA, insisted that the bill "is a solution in search of a problem" and that food safety should be left to the states.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/atoz/article_1224762.php

[no_hypocrisy]

1. One more example of Republican Doublespeak, just like

"Clean Skies Initiative" for federal laws to allow more pollution, and "Fair Voting" to deny access to more American voters.

[rock]

3. We call this one "Hot Coffee"

- But it frozen piss!
- Your point?

[rodeodance]

2. I read an indepth article about this last month. It is a terrible bill for

the people. Good for the food industry

[bkcc]

4. Gotta love how Repubs are all for "States' Rights."

But only when it furthers their own agenda.

[mom cat]

5. Bingo!

[karynnj]

6. What a bad bill

(although I nominate:
"The National Uniformity for Food Act, said Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both Democrats, would gut the food safety protections included in California's Proposition 65, passed 20 years ago," as the worst written published sentence I've seen in a long time.

They could say:
Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both Democrats, said that the National Uniformity for Food Act would gut the food safety protections included in California's Proposition 65, passed 20 years ago.