NAIS on steroids. HR 814, HB 875

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.

Get it? “Enhanced traceability”.

‘SEC. 414A. TRACEABILITY OF FOOD.

‘(a) Establishment of System- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish a traceability system described in subsection (b) for all stages of manufacturing, processing, packaging, and distribution of food.

‘(b) Description of System- The traceability system required by subsection (a) shall require each article of food shipped in interstate commerce to be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary to retrieve the history, use, and location of the article through a recordkeeping and audit system or registered identification.

Full text 814.

Meat, polutry and egg products. Read ‘er and weep. Then contact your legislators. With particular attention to Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1] and her 2 co-sponsers on 814, * Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
* Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3] * Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D, NY-8] and the House Ag Committee as well.

HR 875, brought to you by

Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, and Mr. DEFAZIO)

Now this one doesn’t get scary until you get down to definitions. This

The term ‘adulterated’ includes bearing or containing a contaminant that causes illness or death among sensitive populations………..(10) CONTAMINANT- The term ‘contaminant’ includes a bacterium, chemical, natural toxin or manufactured toxicant, virus, parasite, prion, physical hazard, or other human pathogen that when found on or in food can cause human illness, injury, or death.

could mean that they’re going to take all those nasty chemical cancer causing contaminants out of our food, huh?

But here’s another definition.

(14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.

That’s you and me, buddy. Gotta post, curser is starting to act like a 5 year old broodmare off the range……

@dominiquer60 6027 wrote:

….. get more people involved with letting the government know where there place is, not in my pocket and not in my business.

Erika

Whelp, that’s why I included the link. Hope all who see this will write their representatives…. Squeaky wheels and all that….