FDA Food Safety Rules Threaten to Crush the Good Food Movement [1]

By: Cornucopia.org, 09/19/2013

After years of deliberation in Congress, interagency meetings, lobbyist activity, and a never-ending stream of food poisoning outbreaks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally poised to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

 

However, according to a just released white paper by The Cornucopia Institute, the FDA’s draft rules are so off the mark that they might economically crush the country’s safest farmers while ignoring the root threats to human health:  manure contaminated with deadly infectious pathogens generated on “factory” livestock farms and high-risk produce-processing practices.

 

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