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Pass a Strong Food Safety Bill

We all want greater assurance about the safety of our food, especially now that so much of it comes from other countries with lax safety laws. We already know how vulnerable we are -- we shouldn't have to wait for a national disaster to get the problem fixed! Yet a food safety bill that would help prevent deadly food outbreaks before they start is stalled in the Senate!

Everyone who supplies our neighborhood grocery stores -- whether from the Asian highlands or the Mississippi bottomlands -- should be subjected to reasonable standards, including regular inspections and testing for contamination. Right now, that's not happening.

If you think it is time Washington passes common-sense rules to prevent deadly food outbreaks -- rather than spend taxpayer dollars trying to track them down after the fact -- tell your Senators to vote YES for S. 510 with no loopholes.

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Subject: Pass S. 510 and make our food safer!

Dear [Decision Maker],

I'm glad to see Congress addressing the safety problems that lead to BP's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf. But I don't understand why it takes a national disaster before we make safety a priority.

You have a food safety bill before you (S. 510) that's been sitting for more than a year despite waves of food borne illness. Don't wait! Pass the food safety bill with no loopholes!

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We already know why we have a safety problem.

We import more and more of our food from nations with lax food safety laws, and our inspections have not kept pace. FDA inspects less than 1 percent of all imported food at the border.

Inspectors visit U.S. food producers only about once every 5 to 10 years.

Food recalls are still voluntary and they cost farmers, processors and distributors billions of dollars. Often, much of the food is eaten anyway because consumers never hear about the recall.

I urge you to pass a strong food safety bill with no loopholes for any imported food or any food I buy in the supermarket. The bill should:

--increase inspection of ALL food processors;
--improve reporting when labs find contamination; and
--require all imported food to meet U.S. standards.

I also support additional efforts to make my food safer, including protections against bisphenol A (BPA) from leaching into food. After all, BPA has been linked to brain, immune and reproductive disorders.

I urge you to take up and pass S. 510 now. We can't wait any longer to start putting in place common-sense prevention techniques that will save lives and money.
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Food recalls are still voluntary and they cost farmers, processors and distributors billions of dollars. Often, much of the food is eaten anyway because consumers never hear about the recall. I urge you to pass a strong food safety bill with no loopholes for any imported food or any food I buy in the supermarket. The bill should: --increase inspection of ALL food processors; --improve reporting when labs find contamination; and --require all imported food to meet U.S. standards. I also support additional efforts to make my food safer, including protections against bisphenol A (BPA) from leaching into food. After all, BPA has been linked to brain, immune and reproductive disorders. I urge you to take up and pass S. 510 now. We can't wait any longer to start putting in place common-sense prevention techniques that will save lives and money.

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