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Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009

Date: July 29, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Food Processing and Sales


FOOD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2009 -- (House of Representatives - July 29, 2009)

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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. I thank the chairman emeritus for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership in creating this bipartisan bill that passed unanimously out of our committee and is so important.

This is very personal to me. My dear friend, Nancy Donley, lost her son, Alex, in 1993, her only child, after he ate ground beef contaminated with E. coli. And we heard testimony from people whose children have died and whose family members and loved ones have become sick and died.

Finally, we are able to pass, in a bipartisan way, an overhaul of our food safety system. And so I am pleased to be able to join in this bipartisan agreement to support this legislation. I am also glad that it includes some language directing the FDA to examine antibiotic resistance as it relates to the food supply. I hope we will continue to move forward.

But I urge all of my colleagues to take this great opportunity so never again do we have to look at a victim, a family member of a victim or someone who has died because food that they believed was safe actually killed them. Let's vote for this.

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