To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services 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.

Overview Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT3]show cosponsors (41) Cosponsors: Eleanor Norton [D-DC] Shelley Berkley [D-NV1] Sanford Bishop [D-GA2] Timothy Bishop [D-NY1] André Carson [D-IN7] Kathy Castor [D-FL11] Joe Courtney [D-CT2] Peter DeFazio [D-OR4] Diana DeGette [D-CO1] Eliot Engel [D-NY17] Anna Eshoo [D-CA14] Sam Farr [D-CA17] Bob Filner [D-CA51] Barney Frank [D-MA4] Gabrielle Giffords [D-AZ8] Raul Grijalva [D-AZ7] John Hall [D-NY19] Maurice Hinchey [D-NY22] Mazie Hirono [D-HI2] Eddie Johnson [D-TX30] Marcy Kaptur [D-OH9] Barbara Lee [D-CA9] Nita Lowey [D-NY18] Betty McCollum [D-MN4] James McDermott [D-WA7] James McGovern [D-MA3] Gwen Moore [D-WI4] Christopher Murphy [D-CT5] Jerrold Nadler [D-NY8] Chellie Pingree [D-ME1] (withdrawn) Dutch Ruppersberger [D-MD2] Timothy Ryan [D-OH17] Linda Sánchez [D-CA39] Janice Schakowsky [D-IL9] Mark Schauer [D-MI7] Louise Slaughter [D-NY28] Fortney Stark [D-CA13] Betty Sutton [D-OH13] John Tierney [D-MA6] Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20] Robert Wexler [D-FL19] Text: Summary | Full Text Status: Introduced Feb 4, 2009 Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments Reported by Committee ... House Vote ... Senate Vote ... Signed by President ... This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee. [Last Updated: Nov 13, 2009 3:01PM] Last Action: Apr 23, 2009: House Agriculture: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

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