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FDA Proposes Most Sweeping Food Safety Rules in Decades
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens.
The long-overdue regulations are aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness. Just since last summer, outbreaks of listeria in cheese and salmonella in peanut butter, mangoes and cantaloupe have been linked to more than 400 illnesses and as many as seven deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The actual number of those sickened is likely much higher.
The FDA’s proposed rules would require farmers to take new precautions against contamination, to include making sure workers’ hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and that animals stay out of fields. Food manufacturers will have to submit food safety plans to the government to show they are keeping their operations clean.
Many responsible food companies and farmers are already following the steps that the FDA would now require them to take. But officials say the requirements could have saved lives and prevented illnesses in several of the large-scale outbreaks that have hit the country in recent years.
In a 2011 outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that claimed 33 lives, for example, FDA inspectors found pools of dirty water on the floor and old, dirty processing equipment at Jensen Farms in Colorado where the cantaloupes were grown. In a peanut butter outbreak this year linked to 42 salmonella illnesses, inspectors found samples of salmonella throughout Sunland Inc.’s peanut processing plant in New Mexico and multiple obvious safety problems, such as birds flying over uncovered trailers of peanuts and employees not washing their hands.
Under the new rules, companies would have to lay out plans for preventing those sorts of problems, monitor their own progress and explain to the FDA how they would correct them.
In this Aug. 16, 2012 photo, a combine harvests rice near Tucker, Ark. Consumer groups are pressuring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set federal guidance on allowable levels of arsenic in rice, prompting the agency to consider possible new standards. So far, FDA officials say they have found no evidence that suggests rice is unsafe to eat. Credit: AP
“The rules go very directly to preventing the types of outbreaks we have seen,” said Michael Taylor, FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods.
The FDA estimates the new rules could prevent almost 2 million illnesses annually, but it could be several years before the rules are actually preventing outbreaks. Taylor said it could take the agency another year to craft the rules after a four-month comment period, and farms would have at least two years to comply – meaning the farm rules are at least three years away from taking effect. Smaller farms would have even longer to comply.
The new rules, which come exactly two years to the day President Barack Obama’s signed food safety legislation passed by Congress, were already delayed. The 2011 law required the agency to propose a first installment of the rules a year ago, but the Obama administration held them until after the election. Food safety advocates sued the administration to win their release.
The produce rule would mark the first time the FDA has had real authority to regulate food on farms. In an effort to stave off protests from farmers, the farm rules are tailored to apply only to certain fruits and vegetables that pose the greatest risk, like berries, melons, leafy greens and other foods that are usually eaten raw. A farm that produces green beans that will be canned and cooked, for example, would not be regulated.
Such flexibility, along with the growing realization that outbreaks are bad for business, has brought the produce industry and much of the rest of the food industry on board as Congress and FDA has worked to make food safer.
In a statement Friday, Pamela Bailey, president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents the country’s biggest food companies, said the food safety law “can serve as a role model for what can be achieved when the private and public sectors work together to achieve a common goal.”
The new rules could cost large farms $30,000 a year, according to the FDA. The agency did not break down the costs for individual processing plants, but said the rules could cost manufacturers up to $475 million annually.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the success of the rules will also depend on how much money Congress gives the chronically underfunded agency to put them in place. “Resources remain an ongoing concern,” she said.
The farm and manufacturing rules are only one part of the food safety law. The bill also authorized more surprise inspections by the FDA and gave the agency additional powers to shut down food facilities. In addition, the law required stricter standards on imported foods. The agency said it will soon propose other overdue rules to ensure that importers verify overseas food is safe and to improve food safety audits overseas.
Food safety advocates frustrated over the last year as the rules stalled praised the proposed action.
“The new law should transform the FDA from an agency that tracks down outbreaks after the fact, to an agency focused on preventing food contamination in the first place,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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Comments (153)
VoteRightDammit
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:44pmIt’s open season on freedom, and every single branch of government under Obama is seeking to expand and solidify their power as quickly as possible while the getting is good.
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donkeykong
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 2:10amPlus, by rearing their head, they want their cut
of that 1.6 Billion rounds of ammo …..they don’t
want to be left out of the ‘fun’.
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January5
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 7:21amSorry, but I don’t need a Federal agency protecting me from my food. The entire idea of the FDA is ridiculous.
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Soulfire1975
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:02amHow much more can America take of the gubment of piling crushing regulations
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term limits for congress
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:33amBut, it sounds so good – it must be good. We’ve got ‘fundamental transormation,’ and ‘hope and change,’ and ‘balanced approach,’ and ‘fair share,’ and ‘not on the backs of the middle class,’ and ‘equal shot.’
Embrace the new world. Accept lies as the truth. You won’t miss your freedoms.
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 11:18am…The long-overdue regulations? …aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year?
Give me a break!!!!!
You want to save 3000 lives a year? Try this… We need to take back America and tell the fed to take a hike!!! (That’s my cleaned up version) Get out of the health care industry, reform the legal system that allows frivolous lawsuits, reduce the size of gov’t which will cause our taxes to be much lower rates which will cause companies to start hiring again…
Oh, can you imagine the suicide reduction because people are back to supporting themselves again? Can you imagine the numbers of people being able to buy their own medicines because of tort reform? I’d say many more than 3000 lives would be saved! But, I guess that would make too much since, wouldn’t it?
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turkey13
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:25pmThe easy way around these government regulations is to do what my sons did with their 1500 acre ranch in 2012. They leased out the grazing for over $10,000, hunting rights for over $11,000 to 4 lawyers. They signed up for the dept of Agricultural program C.R.P. on the farm land. We call it CRAP but it pays you not to plant crops. My sons also signed up under another Dept. of Ag. program to bull doze trees and collected another pay check. This is the first time they have made a profit in 3 years. Cubes to feed cows in the winter are out of site + buying hay with the drought for last 2 years.Corn, wheat & oat seeds have doubeled since we started burning them in our bio-fuel.
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SerikFox
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:33pmI don’t see any unreasonable regulations mentioned in this article. Actually, the proposed regulations are things that you should be doing anyways. Aside from making sure workers hands are washed that is (it depends if they actually believe that you can keep your hands clean on a farm, or if they just want them to wash their hands in-between tasks. In-between tasks is fine, that’s a good policy, but there is no way in hell you can keep your hands totally clean on a farm.). My issue with the proposed regulations is the lack of power restraints on the FDA in the proposed regulations.
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jeceil
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:31pmSerikfox, the rules don’t seem unreasonable…but what power does it really give them? What do they consider a farm under this law? Do they now have a right to do a surprise inspection on your backyard lettuce? I don’t think anyone here is asking that question. VoteRight, is right, the are grabbing power. I need to read this law more in depth because I’m afraid that we may be handing the government the right to search our property because they see a tomato plant in the back yard…if they see it, they may have the right to inspect it. The article is right…illness outbreaks are bad for business and if people had any common sense they would just boycott the offending farm instead of trying to make life harder on all the others. BTW, where is the money coming from to enforce all these new regulations?!
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txjb
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 4:40pmMore foundation for the New World Order.
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spirited
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:31pmWhy doesn’t the FDA just make the farms that were the cause of the illnesses and deaths an example?
>Never let a crisis go to waste -huh?
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:41pmThese pathetic liberals think the government is going to protect them from the grim reaper.
Little do they know, the Government is the Grim reaper.
Democide – Death By Government.
290 million people have been murdered by their government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCemznb6Lc
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:45pmof course that would be too much of a free market solution
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Wolf
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:54pmSpirited… ever hear of that little thing called the Constitution?
You shoulod read it some tinme and learn a thing or two about freedom. Just a little thing, but nice to have.
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happygranny
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 11:32amHow much more regulations can we handle? It seems there is no end to to this administration’s power grab. Get out of our lives, and just stay away. I don’t need some government official telling me what I need to do, good common sense does that quite well.
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decendentof56
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:31pm“The long-overdue regulations are aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness.”
You guys can do the math for me here.
3,000 deaths in a country of 350 million where everyone eats.
Now, if you wash your uncooked veggies, like anyone with a brain would do, do you think that your odds would go down even further?
Chicago alone had 500+ murders in 2012 with a population of 2.7 million.
What we are seeing is UN Agenda 21! It’s about control of the population That’s what this is about.
Do you think you will sell your garden veggies at a roadside stand in front of you house? They will have to be regulated. All the land you bought is now useless.
UN Agenda 21 tenants are:
Sustainable Development. Great…right? Who wouldn’t want that? Come along, folks!
It’ll be very “green”, and you’ll love it!
Everything will be designated as “Wildlands” areas.
Who can live in Wildlands? …..certainly not Man.
Man will be moved to high-density areas, or ‘regions’, as they are called, and man will live in highly controlled, tightly-packed “apartments.”
It’ll be cosy!
These areas are called “Transit Areas.” Why? because the “transit” to move you will run right by your front door.
Only 25% of the landmass of the US will be inhabited by man.
You won’t need the 20 acres to raise those horses or cows. It’s not sustainable. And anyway, those lawnmowers and tractors pollute.
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afishfarted
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:39pmbadda bing badda boom, you hit the nail on the head. and I am very sorry to say that MY senator Alexander just got an appointment: Alexander appointed to Senate’s energy, resources committee.
He AIN’T gonna make things better
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:22pmGet ready. It doesn’t say whether the farmer has to keep domesticated animals out, or ALL animals out of the fields. Ask yourself how many farmers could keep deer out of a cornfield…
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decendentof56
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:50pmBasket…..
My above post about A-21 just touches on this. Obviously, no one can keep animals off their land.
HeH, just last week had 3,000 white Canadian geese in the 100 acre field next to me. Do you know how much fecal matter they leave?
Will you keep them out, too? Deer, wild turkeys, ground hogs, dogs? How about those.?
As I said above…the plan is to move all people to high-density areas, and to “free up” 75% of the land-mass of the US for wildlife. It’ll be great! You can live in your small apartment and listen to wolves howl at night. You’ll have your window up, because you won’t be needing an air-conditioner.
We will literally be use-restricted off our land. Emminant domain will be used more than ever.
A good source is Rosa Koire’s book “Behind the Green Mask.” You can see her on You Tube, as well. There are many good UN Agenda sources out there. It is real, and is included in EVERY “general plan” in every town/municipality/township/city in the US.
We need to educate ourselves, and quickly. Then we need to get t oour planning board meetings.
Remember…. if 75% of the landmass is going to be for animals, then where are we going to grow the food we need?
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Maxim Crux
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:19pmI guess that means not more horse crap for fertilizer.
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asybot12
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:52pmThat is already a rule here in Canada. Even composted you are not allowed to use it anymore on commercial fruit growing farms.
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ranepowel
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:10pmLot of what I’m hearing here is: let’s let 3,000 people die so I can have cheaper steak.
You’re all wonderful human beings. Jesus would be so proud.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:23pmAlinsky is very proud of you boy.
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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:25pmWhy do you hate poor people? You wish to deprive lower income Americans from being able to afford meat?
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:26pmCall it what it really is Agenda 21!!! This is all apart of that agenda…
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:28pmIf you believe that government regulation will even REDUCE foodborne illness, you are deluded. The only thing that will prevent contamination of foodstuffs is to relegate the production of food back to the small farmer, that eats his own produce. He CARES what happens to his produce. The large scale commercial farms will always play the odds.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:34pmYou are ignorant.
How many people get food poisoning in regulated restaurants, everyday?
Take 911. Planes were regulated. Skies were regulated. Towers were regulated. Yet over 3000 died.
Our Highways. They are regulated. Cars are regulated. Drivers are regulated.
How many thousands of people die on the roads, even though they are regulated ?
I could go on all night with examples to cite your lack of logic.
You liberals are pathetic and extremely unrealistic. You really believe the government should regulate us until there are NO DEATHS.
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decendentof56
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:35pmCivilWar…….
These posters do not read about A-21. Don’t waste your time with them.
They are going to be led like cattle to the slaughter.
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Dan_o
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:02pmPeople die, wuss. Get used to it. You’ll die someday, too.
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mrs.janet.murgatroid
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:05pmWe need to thin out the herd. Let the weaklings who eat spoiled food and get sick die first. I eat plenty of spoiled moldy food and am healthy as a horse. The gene pool is sick with weaklings, time to let nature weed them out.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:06pm@decendentof56
I was telling Blazers about Agenda21 before Beck even heard of it.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:11pmProbIemSoIver (a.k.a MichaelMoron)
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 8:00am
“I Just Google earthed it. It is 1 mile east of 65 and just above the Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Management Area (another PC word for agenda 21 Limited use area)”
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marybethelizabeth
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:54pmRanepowell,
Many of the posters that show a basic lack of humanity in their writing are paid to post here to discredit Glenn Beck and his 5th column movement.
The rest that do so are fascists.
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TADTAD
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:09pmRane, idiocy knows no bounds. Semper Fi, Mac.
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:06pmranepowel
Don’t be a hater! And stop taking things out of context!
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OZARK_BUTCHER
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:56pmRANEPOWEL The Meat industry have been under these exact regulations for 20 years.
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charles116
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:51pmThese poor folks have some greeting card notion of America 150 years ago.
Our ‘wonderful’ founding fathers for the most part, were upper class deadbeats escaping
thousands of pounds in debt for their high living.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:10pmSue this Corrupt PRIVATE COMPANY !!!
They allowed us to eat Genetically Modified Fruits and Vegetables without our consent.
The government allows corporations to splice fish genes into our tomatoes, as an example.
A lot People believe this wreaks havoc on our bodies.
These evil corporations Genetically Modified these to make them grow faster, larger, resist bugs and last longer after being picked.
I DON”T NEED ANYONE REGULATING MY FOOD !!!!!
If I pick an orange from an orange tree, I am safe to eat it. I DON’T NEED SOME BUREAUCRAT to tell me it’s Okay !!!!
If I get my meat from my neighbor who is a farmer. I DON’T NEED SOME BUREAUCRAT to tell me it must have Hormones and Steroids added, and must be Irradiated !!!!
This is what they are doing !!!!!
People need to tell Washington to high-tail it already.
I have had enough. I am ready to face them head-on.
People need to Buy organic (The way god made it, The kind we used to eat in America, REAL FOOD)
from their neighbors and tell the FDA to pound sand.
I bet these outbreaks occured because the food was genetically modified.
I bet natural food would not be susceptible to these deadly outbreaks.
Demand That this Corrupt “Government” LABEL GMO’s !!!!
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CONTUMACY
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:50pmBWS-seasonal orange pickers+brought in by busload+feces filled diapers left in the field+no habla= I’ll let you do the math.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:58pmYou are assuming I condone illegal workers.
I want them ALL GONE !!!!!!
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:03pmCorrupt Bureaucrat + Greedy Corporation = Illegal Aliens
Once again, a Bureaucrat is part of the equation.
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asybot12
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:03pmAbout an earlier comment you made: ” I was telling “Blazers” about agenda 21 before Glenn Beck”, That’s hilarious it was Glenn who started “The Blaze” before you ever heard of it
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:28pmI knew about Agenda 21 before the BLAZE was established. FAIL !!!
Although, I may have first heard of Agenda 21 on Beck’s FOX program about 2-3 years ago :p
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oxycontinxx
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:09pm“The long-overdue regulations are aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness.”
no doubt i would be totally irate if some of my folk died from foodborne illness. but with 300 million plus people in this country……………what is the cost of this program?? and for every additional death that is prevented, the cost rises geometrically.
lets see……….3,000 deaths out of 300 million……………..thats .001 percent. i dont think we ll ever achieve perfection.
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skiziks20453
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:00pmSomeone has some sense.. nice. Every additional “saved” life would be exponentialy higher in cost. to have no deaths would be infinitly costly.
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:06pmMore regulation on farms, this means the price of food will drop and the economy will magically improve right?
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Mil-Dot
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:49amThey are trying to put the small farms out of business and concentrate all of the production to fewer, large commercial farms where it would be much easier to use food, or lack thereof as a weapon against their adversaries. That is what this is about.
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:59pmI saw a report where it is human waste from the field workers that is contaminating the produce. Many do not have places to go to the bathroom and even in places that do, they still just go in the fields. We should at least have people who know how to use a bathroom picking and harvesting our produce.
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Deb C
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:08pmWhat about the thousands of deaths from cancer caused by Monsanto and others from using, herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, GMO’s ?????
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:12pm@DEBC
Bingo !!!
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:14pmWHO…. SPECIFICALLY is using the fields as a toilet? Is there any CULTURE common to farm workers? Any common trait? Any common characteristic among farm “workers?” Any “crackdown” should include investigating these questions… right?
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CONTUMACY
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:24pmThis is true. A relative of mine used to live next to an orange tree field in Florida, and whenever the owners would harvest, they would bring in busloads of hispanics and they would do their dirty deed in diapers right in the middle of the field and just leave them there. I found this disgusting, but funyy too, because his dogs would like to bring the nasty diapers to his doorstep for presents.
Happy new year to all that enjoy Florida Citrus.
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:30pm“Hispanics,” CONTUMACY? Do you mean illegal aliens?
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:37pmSo just how much human waste our we consumeing from illegal’s. Wow they just aren’t steeling from us but actually pi$$ing in our faces to boot…
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decendentof56
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 8:07pmANY vegetables that are uncooked MUST BE washed! I grew up on a combined Dairy-vegtable (tomatoes/strawberries) farm in Southern NJ. I can tell you that you must wash your veggies!
Keep all animals out of the fields? I don’t think so!
Like I said in another post, you will not be growing veggies in your garden to sell at your little roadside stand in front of your home.
You may be “allowed” to grow it for personal consumption, but if you were planning to make some money on the side?………forget it!
This about UN Agenda 21, and that is about control. You will be made to be dependent on food grown 3,000 miles away, and there will not be enough to go around.
First…we have to get the people off the land and into population centers.
Besides, radical environmentalists are on record…and in their own words….as saying we need no more than 100 million people on Earth.
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Bangstick
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:58pmIt’s laughable that the gov’t thinks it can stop a measly 3000 accidental deaths with more regulation meanwhile implementing Obamacare that could kill many more through regulated medical neglect.
Nevermind the conditions they are trying to regulate have existed since there was food.
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pahrumper
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:58pmJust what we need is yet another fed law that Obummer controls
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jcldwl
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:54pmOkay this link is off subject but it is just as much an over reaction as these stupid new food regulations that are going to do nothing but drive up the cost of our food. Go to this link and see the over reaction of people from Connecticut about violent video games.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/03/newtown-shooting-video-game-buyback
First they came for the video games then people still weren’t satisfied, then they came for the violent movies but it still wasn’t enough. Then they took our guns and the people were happy until they needed someone to protect them from their stupid ideas. When will people wake up and stop trying to blame everything a nut job does on everything but the nut job. Sorry to be off subject but I needed a good rant on a current story. Because this flippin story ****** me off too. Next it will be our home gardens but I ranted about that on an earlier story. These people want to do nothing more than make food so expensive we can’t afford to buy it and have to crawl on our knees to the government. All these ridiculous rules over 3000 food related deaths? What a frickin joke.
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1TrueOne55
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:17pmSolyent green
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pm3,000 deaths from food-borne illness = ILLEGAL government crackdown.
Thousands of death, rapes, child molestations, home-invasions, kidnappings, hit-n-run overs from illegal aliens = COMPLETELY IGNORED.
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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:28pmmore than 60 hospitals shut their doors in CA alone because of unpaid medical care to uninsured illegal aliens
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pmSave 3000, but kill millions with GMO food.
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The_Jerk
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:01pmExcellent point. Unintended consequences or a planned power grab?
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:02pmAnd those who voted for him are theif’s. Steeling from us all. http://twitchy.com/2013/01/04/rent-a-kid-taxpayers-looking-to-borrow-children-for-tax-credit/
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Midwest Blonde
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pmOne of the hardest things these new rules suggest – keeping animals out of fields – will be near impossible. Most farmland isn’t fenced – hell, even animals aren’t fenced in in some areas. I’ve seen more than one horse and/or cow in the roadways around here (Nebraska).
One of the simplest measures to make sure food is safe – is WASH IT before packaging/packing or processing. Why hasn’t washing been suggested?
I know that you can find e-coli in processed flour, but if you COOK the food you use the flour in, you’re sfe (as in don’t eat the cookie dough). As for peanut butter – check the processors more often for cleanliness. Bad C antelope? WASH it before you slice it. In fact WASH everything before you eat it, that you CAN possibly wash. Even when I cook a whole chicken or turkey – it gets a quick bath in a bit of dish soap and HOT (not boiling) water then thoroughly rinsed before cooking. Common sense will save a lot of people from Illness.
What’s lacking all over the country is COMMON SENSE.
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Mr.buff1959
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 2:01amExcellent post, thank you.
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Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 3:03pmHaven’t you heard … the government has banished all common sense in our country.
This is yet another government power grab against the free market farmers. Obamacare ensures gov’t control over our medical needs, so now all they lack is to control our food supply. Welcome to the USSA.
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Netsurfer2
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:49pmMore regulation, more rules, more taxes and larger government! Before you know it the fashion police will be out in every city telling what you can and cannot wear! LOL… Where you can and cannot go… What you can and cannot eat… If you can ever drive and where! Not like they will ever give anyone a choice while holding themselves exempt from all regulations! You know the drill.
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ares338
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:47pmIt will put small operations out of business to make way for the new giant collectives for the New World Order……welcome comrade!
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:45pmHmmm… a “story” on (unconstitutional) FDA “protection” and “outbreaks”…
… NOWHERE did I find the words “illegal,” “alien,” “illegal alien farm worker” or “ICE.”
Strange.
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ares338
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:45pmYa don’t need more fu€king rules…just enforce the ones we already have!
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:55pmI like your choice of words.
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:42pmWhich Enumerated Power in the federal Constitution, authorizes the republican/democrat (same thing) FDA… TO EVEN EXIST?
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:52pmShhhhhh Don’t let the cat out of the bag,most Americans have a hard time spelling their own name let alone discuss constitutional issues. Look I got elected because most Americans are dumb and gullible,they thought a gay Marxist was a heterosexual capitalist,LMAO I’m really diggin this tyranny thing so I think I’ll stay in power for life capice?
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Psychosis
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:40pmThe long-overdue regulations are aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness. Just since last summer, outbreaks of listeria in cheese and salmonella in peanut butter, mangoes and cantaloupe have been linked to more than 400 illnesses and as many as seven deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The actual number of those sickened is likely much higher.
DEMOCRATS MUST BAN FOOD ………………….OH THE HORROR ,,,,,,,,,
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:48pm… AND REPUBLICANS. Democrats. Republicans. Same thing. FDA. UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:39pmI’ll put so many regulations on farms they’ll all go out of business and millions will starve to death,ole pops would be proud of me for all the destruction I’ve caused,I know he’s busy in hell tormenting lost souls and his son is busy tormenting the living. Praise be to me BHO.
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Trail_Jumper
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:48pmDude, you crack me up! :)
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Netsurfer2
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pmLOL… Be like Jimmy playing in the nut ******* on a snowy day! The buck stops here!
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jcldwl
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:58pmThe soviets starved part of their population to death. Don’t you think that is part of this regimes plan? I do.
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:05pmJC You are addressing your magnificent ruler so I am familiar with my plan since I made the plan. Praise be to me BHO.
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blanco5
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:39pmFood safety or just more control….you know the answer. Stalin style!
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The_Jerk
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:37pmControl the means of production.
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Exrepublisheep
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:41pm3,000 deaths a year is O.K. by you?
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Fubared
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:43pmBut you would support Halal. Oh, lalalalalalalalalala.
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qpwillie
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pm@Exrepublisheep
Better than the millions that will starve to death when 95% of the farmers have to shut down. Most of them are struggling to keep their heads above water already, due to crippling regulations.
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The_Jerk
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:53pmEx, “estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness.”
Show me the statistics. And, the unintended consequences might produce more than 3,000 deaths per year. Show me proof that the intended fix is really a fix, and not a power grab.
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jcldwl
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 6:57pm@exrepub
Do you really believe that you can stop every death that ever happens? If you do you are an idiot. Oh but you probably don’t mind children being killed in the womb do you.
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Maxim Crux
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:24pmExrepublisheep, maybe you can apply to be a food tester for Obama in the near future. He does seem to appreciate you idiots and your usefulness.
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Exrepublisheep
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:58pmGeez,m who would have guessed that the most intelligent reply would come from a guy called “The Jerk”? I got the 3,000 # from the article, the vast majority of abortions are murder, and most farms are owned by corporate giants in no danger of going out of business. Ye olde farms of the guy with the pitchfork are way gone.
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Lt_Scrounge
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 8:18pmHey Exrepublisheep, if 3,000 deaths a year are so bad, what would you classify the roughly 3500 that are aborted DAILY? Just a question.
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