Photo: NASA Images , CC The US Senate just passed the first major update to the nation’s food safety policies in decades — the bill gives the FDA the ability to test foods for dangerous pathogens, to issue food recalls, and requires that it do better and more frequent inspections of industrial food production plants. All of that is good news for the nation’s food consumers — namely, us. The stream of cases of tainted peanut butter, eggs, spinach, etc had drastically, and rightfully, weakened our confidence in natio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Food Safety Bill Passes Senate: What it Means for Eating in America