Gillibrand On Signing Of Food Safety Bill: Giant Step Forward To Protect Consumers, But More Work Needed To Ensure Safety Of Nation's Meat Supply

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Food Safety Bill Includes Gillibrand Provision to Notify Consumers About FDA Recalls

As President Obama today signs the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law, marking the first major, comprehensive update to America's food safety laws in over a century, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who authored a portion of the bill that will provide better notification for consumers of FDA recalls, applauded the bill's signing, but called for additional protections for America's meat supply in the upcoming Farm Bill. Senator Gillibrand's Consumer Recall Notification Act was included in the legislation the President will sign today.

"Today, we've taken an important first step to bringing our food safety laws into the 21st century," Senator Gillibrand said. "Among many other important improvements, this legislation will provide better notification for grocery store shoppers when a product is recalled, and I commend President Obama for signing this bill into law. But we have more work to do. We can't afford to wait for another deadly E. coli outbreak before we take action to protect our meat supply. There are a number of commonsense steps we can take that would prevent disease and save lives across the country."

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