New House Legislation: Increased Monitoring of Food and Drug Companies

In January 2009, a group of lawmakers serving on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee introduced legislation that would increase monitoring and inspections of food and drug manufacturing plants both in the U.S. and overseas.

The legislation would also provide the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with additional authority to order mandatory recalls of tainted foods or unsafe drugs, and would require food producers and drug manufacturers to pay fees to the FDA to cover the costs of plant inspections.

The legislation was introduced in light of the highly-publicized recall of hundreds of food products made from peanuts processed by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). PCA’s plant in Georgia has been confirmed as the source of a nationwide peanut butter salmonella outbreak which has sickened over 500 people. On January 20, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that eight deaths were attributable to the consumption of tainted peanut-containing foods.

As of February 2, 2009, the FDA Web site had listed over 100 voluntary nationwide recalls of products, including cookies, cereals, snack bars, crackers, cakes and ice cream products because the foods may have contained peanuts from PCA’s Georgia facility.

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