Consumers Union is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves.
Is the left hand talking to the right? Not when it comes to our 
dysfunctional food safety system.
Federal inspectors are flooding into Iowa to try to figure out the cause of a half-billion eggs recalled for Salmonella. Sure – now they are. But until this point regulators paid little attention to either of the two egg farms now involved in the massive recall, despite the fact that one of them, Wright County Eggs, has a history of health and safety violations.
The problem lies within a fractioned system where dozens of federal, state and local agencies share responsibility for different parts of our food safety system, especially when it comes to eggs.
CU’s Ami Gadhia was featured on NPR setting the record straight on who-does-what.
“FDA has the authority over shell eggs that you buy in those cartons at the grocery store,” she says. But for the chickens themselves and the eggs that are cracked open before shipping — “That is under the jurisdiction of USDA,”
Complicating it further, the food processed into egg-containing products, like cookies, cakes and lasagna, are regulated, again, by the FDA.
Everyone clear now?
You can listen to the whole interview here.
Please, please for all that cook, chef, love food or even just like to EAT!! Please write / call your congressmen/ senators to pass laws regarding the protection of our food!!!!! We should be so ANGREY regarding the lack of responsibility on the part of our government ….so when “our” elected representatives return from their vacations WRITE and CALL and open the link I have below, be a part of one of the most important campaigns we can get involved with… our bloody damn FOOD!!!Sons of bitches …greedy filthy mass food producers and the years of the politicians/ pass presidents eroding the rules and laws of food safety!!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!!!
I e-mailed my Senators as suggested. One of them doesn’t accept e-mail without a long process of verification of the writer’s identity. The other replied that she did not want to burden producers with “excess administrative fees” and “cumbersome regulations”. If you live in Texas, it is clearly time for a change in our representation in the Senate.
Why not take responsibility for your own health and well being by eating ORGANIC LOCALLY PRODUCED EGGS/FOOD?
YOU are contributing to the problem by buying products from these mega agri farms who care only about profits. No amount of government regulation will change the fact that these places are toxic bio-recycling factories. S.510 is a JOKE, a fake bill which will harm local organic producers.
Why not take action and take responsibility for what you consume?
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608