Congressman Burgess Introduces Legislation Aimed At Increasing FDA’s Authority To Stop Harmful Food Imports, USA

Congressman Michael Burgess (R-Lewisville) introduced a bill which would give the FDA authority to require foreign countries to take more responsibility for the foods they send to the United States. H.R. 3967, The Imported Food Safety Improvement Act of 2007, would allow the FDA to embargo a specific food from a specific country if there were repeated instances of that food being found contaminated when it arrived in the United States. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Public Health on October 30th, 2007