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Senate Committee Chair Hopes Senate Will Get to Food Safety Bill in June

On June 8, 2010, Senator Harkin (D), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released a statement announcing that he hopes to get S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, to the Senate floor in June. Chairman…

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Harkin also commented on the Institute of Medicine’s new report entitled “Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration.” In 2008, Congress directed FDA to contract with the National Academies for a study of the gaps in FDA’s food safety system and this report is the result.