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Obama signs new food safety bill
Loading ...Foreshadowing the coming power struggles between the White House and a more Republican Congress, President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s food safety system as some lawmakers complained that it’s too expensive and threatened its funding.
Advocates of locally grown food in the Nashville area and elsewhere had objected to the bill until changes were made that excluded some small-scale agriculture from regulations that they said could bankrupt the operations.
Congress passed the bill after several serious outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella poisoning in peanuts, eggs and produce in the past few years. It would increase inspections at food processing facilities and allow mandatory recalls of tainted products.
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