tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271527213708726243.post7199309341805998722..comments2023-10-24T07:38:03.444-04:00Comments on eFoodAlert.com: Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer: "My customers are the children of this country."Phyllis Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426014057471290677noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271527213708726243.post-78565353851311715642008-11-07T15:51:00.000-05:002008-11-07T15:51:00.000-05:00Excuse me, but to the alst comment, NAIS is useles...Excuse me, but to the alst comment, NAIS is useless if it isn't mandatory, I beg to differ. NAIS is useless altogether. Go to the Liberty Ark website or to the Farm and Ranchers Freedom Association website to get updated on why NAIS destroys small farmers, homesteaders, and family farm hobbyists with it's onerous regulations which do not protect food safety. NAIS stops at the food processors Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271527213708726243.post-43371214539599039932008-02-27T10:19:00.000-05:002008-02-27T10:19:00.000-05:00I have been a supporter of the concept of a single...I have been a supporter of the concept of a single, independent federal food safety agency since the 1970s when I worked for Health Protection Branch (then Canada's equivalent to the FDA). I supervised the Quebec Region microbiology group.<BR/><BR/>I remember the excitement that rippled through our agency when it was rumored that the Prime Minister (Pierre Trudeau) would be announcing the Phyllis Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18426014057471290677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271527213708726243.post-84229966223493451072008-02-26T19:05:00.000-05:002008-02-26T19:05:00.000-05:00I hope he gets it. USDA is no how, no way the "peo...I hope he gets it. USDA is no how, no way the "people's dept". If it is anything it is the strange bedfellow of industrialized agriculture. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said it best, "Food safety ought to be of a high enough priority in this nation that we have a single agency that deals with it and not an agency that is responsible for promoting a product, selling a product and then as an Henwhispererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16126695624933143089noreply@blogger.com