Congressman Simpson Steps Up

 A new food bill is designed 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. Sounds like a bill in the public interest but lots of small farmers say that it will bury them in paper work and regulations and put them out of business. Coming to the rescue, Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson. Here’s his aide, Linda Culver. “If they make any changes to it, fix it so that they won’t run out these little people who want to come to a garden show or something like that, maybe, but at this point it is highly unlikely that he’s even going to look at this bill. Hopefully it won’t go anywhere. The President is promoting that with a new garden at the White House. I’m just shocked. But like I said, the Congresswoman who introduced it is very knowledgeable about food safety and where she’s going with it trying to protect people from the peanut butter problem.”