3.0.0 654 2023-01-11T19:57:43Z 2023-01-11T19:57:43Z Senate S S 2007-02-15 110 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-02-15T23:32:05Z Safe Food Act of 2007 110 1148 HR 2007-02-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2007-02-15 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2101-2111) IntroReferral 2007-02-15 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2101) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-02-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2007-02-15 True C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2007-03-21 False C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2007-05-08 False Agriculture and Food Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Advice and consent of the Senate Agricultural extension work Agricultural research Agriculture in foreign trade Animal diseases Animals Antibiotics Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Biological warfare Bribery Business records Citizen lawsuits Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Commerce Congressional reporting requirements Consumer complaints Consumer education Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal liability DNA Damages Data banks Defective products Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Health and Human Services Department of Labor Disciplining of employees Discrimination in employment Dismissal of employees Drug resistance in microorganisms Employee training Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency Epidemiology Executive reorganization Export controls Federal advisory bodies Federal employees Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Feeds Fines (Penalties) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food industry Food safety Food supply Foodborne diseases Foreign Trade and International Finance Fraud Gifts Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Grocery trade Health Health education Health surveys Import restrictions Imports Injunctions International Affairs Labeling Labor and Employment Laboratories Law Legal fees Licenses Limitation of actions Meat inspection Medical research Medical statistics Nutrition Pesticides Physical examinations Plants Poultry Presidential appointments Preventive medicine Retail trade Science, Technology, Communications Seafood Searches and seizures Standards State employees Storage Terrorism Veterinary medicine Wage restitution Whistle blowing Agriculture and Food 00 2007-02-15 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-08T21:21:41Z Safe Food Act of 2007 - Establishes the Food Safety Administration to administer and enforce food safety laws. Directs the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration to: (1) promulgate regulations to ensure the security of the food supply from all forms of contamination; (2) implement federal food safety inspection, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; (3) develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; and (4) prioritize federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit in reducing food-borne illness.

Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different food and the processing of different food; (2) establish standards for processors of food and food establishments; (3) establish a certification system for foreign governments or food establishments seeking to import food to the United States; (4) establish requirements for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale; (5) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence; (6) establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; (7) rank and analyze hazards in the food supply; (8) establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and (9) conduct research relating to food safety.

Sets forth provisions regarding prohibited acts, administrative detention, condemnation, temporary holds, recall, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistle blower protection, and civil actions.

]]> Safe Food Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Safe Food Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Safe Food Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-02-15T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s654is/xml/BILLS-110s654is.xml 2007-02-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2101-2111) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.