Food Safety News - Historic Food Safety Bill Signed into Law

By Helena Bottemiller
January 5, 2011

"Using 15 pens, President Obama signed the long-awaited FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law Tuesday evening. The legislation, widely hailed as the most sweeping update to U.S. food safety law since the Great Depression, survived a constitutional slip-up, repeated filibuster threats, fierce debate over controversial amendments, and managed to advance amidst a jam-packed legislative agenda in one of the most productive Congresses in recent history.  In the last 18 months, food safety legislation cleared the Senate twice and the House three times..."

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