FDA Taking Over State Food Regulation

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By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Farmtoconsumer.org

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In FDA’s words, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) “directs FDA to build an integrated national food safety system in partnership with state and local authorities explicitly recognizing that all food safety agencies need to work in integrated ways to achieve public health goals.” To FDA “integrate” means dictating to the states what their food safety laws will be. FDA wants “uniformity” and to have the laws governing interstate and intrastate commerce be the same.

FDA has long tried to co-op state food regulation through cooperative agreements with and …read more

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