Food Safety. Selected Issues and Bills in the 111th Congress

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government information.

Laboratories.

Product safety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 2010

Summary:

Describes bills in the 111th Congress to alter current U.S. food safety system and increase spending to better meet current obligations to protect consumers from unsafe food. Covers legislation addressing hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls, performance standards, registration, recordkeeping, targeting of inspections, on-farm safety standards, food imports, use of third parties for imports and for laboratory accreditation, product tracing, foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response, paying for food safety, and organization of food safety responsibilities

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Microfiche version Library of CongressCongressional Research Service Food Safety

Publisher Number:

CRS-2010-RSI-0367

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