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Food Safety - Senate
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S. 510 – The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
Sponsor – Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Cosponsors – Judd Gregg (R-NH), Richard Burr (R-NC), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Roland Burris (D-IL), Tom Udall (D-NM), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Chris Dodd (D-CT)
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Subject: S. 510 - Food Safety
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
On behalf of my company, we urge you to cosponsor S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Recent outbreaks, recalls and food safety scares have revealed weaknesses in our current system and new challenges in an ever-changing global marketplace that this legislation will help to address.
Ensuring that the products we sell are safe, high quality and affordable is a top priority for my company and the entire retail food industry. We have many prevention programs in place to protect our customers, such as consumer education campaigns, employee food safety training, extensive sanitation programs, and food safety management systems. But all of these prevention programs at the retail level cannot ensure that we deliver safe food to our customers if the food coming into our stores isn't already produced and processed to the highest standards.
We support the legislation's recognition that all points in supply chain play an important role in food safety. In addition, we are pleased with the legislations provisions to provide the FDA mandatory recall authority, require FDA to work with industry to develop pilot projects to improve traceability, require food safety plans to be in place and allow FDA to recognize and benefit from current accredited third-party certification programs.
It is the responsibility of both industry and the government to work together to improve the safety of our food supply and focus on preventing problems before they ever occur.
We value this public-private partnership and thank you in advance for your commitment to food safety by cosponsoring S. 510. I would welcome the opportunity to
host you at one of our locations and demonstrate many of the programs we utilize to protect our customer.
Sincerely,
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