Federal Regulations and Safety
The Food Regulations system is controlled a substantial amount by the government. Whether the government wanted that role or not society forced them into taking control in the early parts of the twentieth century. Americans have a tremendous amount of confidence in the government by trusting them when they determine whether food is safe or whether it isn’t. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are the government agencies that handle the different issues that come up about food regulation in the United States. Whether Americans agree or disagree these four programs were designed
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The Food Safety and Modernization Act is the most recent expansion of the FDA authority the last expansion was the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1938 (2). The FDA has been looking for more power over the last couple of decades with the Food Safety and Modernization Act the FDA now has a number of new powers such as mandating recall authority (2). Prevention of food safety, improving the safety of imported foods, detection of and response to food safety problems, and miscellaneous provisions are the four titles that the FSMA is divided into …show more content…
Giving the FDA the authority to levy civil fines for any prohibited act, giving FDA authority to quarantine food are just two of the many provisions that did not survive (2). The Food Safety Modernization Act has brought a few new regulatory requirements as well as given the FDA new powers. With Food Safety Modernization Act headed on the route it is headed, it has the potential to move the FDA regulation of food in the direction that the USDA regulatory model represents (2). The Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act is a bill that is a part of an attempt to help bring back the importance of a child’s nutrition. While the United States funding for schools nutrition is low this act was designed to help bring back the importance of breakfast and lunch during school for children. This act was developed to improve food resources for students so they are able to perform their best in the
Regulating what the government should control and what they should not was one of the main arguments our founding fathers had to deal with when creating our nation, and to this day this regulation is one of the biggest issues in society. Yet, I doubt our founding fathers thought about the idea that the food industry could one day somewhat control our government, which is what we are now facing. Marion Nestles’ arguments in the book Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health deal with how large food companies and government intertwine with one another. She uses many logical appeals and credible sources to make the audience understand the problem with this intermingling. In The Politics of Food author Geoffrey Cannon further discusses this fault but with more emotional appeals, by use of personal narratives. Together these writers make it dramatically understandable why this combination of the food industry and politics is such a lethal ordeal. However, in The Food Lobbyists, Harold D. Guither makes a different viewpoint on the food industry/government argument. In his text Guither speaks from a median unbiased standpoint, which allows the reader to determine his or her own opinions of the food industries impact on government, and vise versa.
Some examples of these measures are more frequent testing, more adequate labeling, and increasing the number of suppliers of particular ingredients. At the same time, people’s consumption of particular products in response to recalls has changed. (Peake 13) In a general sense, people tend to consume less of a particular product once a well-known recall is publicized. This alone should be reason for a company to “step up their game” and insure that food safety is at an all-time
The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act has taken over schools nationwide and needs to be stopped. There are more negatives than positives that go along with this act and there needs to be an end. Schools should not have to waste money on expensive food to have it not be eaten. Students should be able to enjoy what the lunchroom has to offer. The students do not buy these lunches so the food goes to waste. In 2012, when the Healthy Hunger Free-Kids Act was made students stopped eating their school lunches and schools began to lose great amounts money. It 's beneficial to encourage healthy eating habits with schools but this act needs to be reformed.
The act of manufactures labeling of our foods products in terms of the ingredients a particular product contains and the nutritious facts is sometimes taken for granted, we often see the labels on our food products, but ignore them because we’re so used to seeing them in our daily lives. Surprisingly, food product labeling, specifically that pertaining to allergen warnings, were not always available to consumers until a government mandate in 2004 (FALCPA). I think part of the reason for such a lateness in regulation was due to a social stigma regarding allergies, that having them was some sort of natural selection and not an issue that should be taken care of. Another surprising notion I came across was that although there was no government regulation, manufactures of food products took a good amount of initiative in letting their consumers know of potential allergens in their products.
The momentum generated by the passage of the Meat Inspection Act helped secure the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which had been stalled in Congress since 1905. With these two pieces of legislation, the federal government took important steps to assure the public that the food they were eating met minimu...
After Upton Sinclair, a muckraker journalist, released The Jungle he met with the president of the united states and he passed two acts to protect the public from food that wasn’t proven safe. The acts were called The Pure Food and Drug act and The Meat Inspection act, These acts protected the people from food that was packaged in gross and dirty conditions. These helps reduce foodborne diseases like Salmonella. These acts improved food safety directly and were passed in 1906 but came into effect in 1907. In 1912
Before this meat in[ection act came along the workers of the meat factory would throw meat on “damp and soggy,” floor and would still use that meat and packet it and sell it to American. (Doc B) They would shoved the dirty meat and didn’t care about safety of American. In fact the workers them self were dirty,they were “ utter ignorance of cleanliness or danger to health.” Because of such packeting skills, there came a lot of death because people would get sick and not know why and die. After all this mess, the FDA came into play. The people now had a chance to know what toxic ingredients that were in were in the food. The purpose of this document is to show America the what kind of bad killing food we were eating which cause disease or even
...ous tests (Law, 2004). They also must now have the FDA’s approval in order for a certain food or drug to be sold directly to consumers. Also the marketplace has changed, due to new ways to process the product in a more safe and effective manner. There were also changes due to political, economical, social, and cultural changes since 1906. In conclusion, the Food and Drug Act paved the way for the Progressive movement and food safety in America.
...ade such uproar that the Pure Food and Drug Act was made, and the Food and Drug Administration was later created to insure safe conditions for consumers and workers.
The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 amends the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and
Soda’s are leaving vending machines and being be substituted with less-sugary drinks, bread is being substituted for whole wheat and milk is being substituted to fat free milk. First Lady Michelle Obama took it into her own hands to provide the United states children with food that meets nutritional standards. “Through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by the First Lady and signed by President Obama, USDA made the first major changes in school meals in 15 years, which will help us raise a healthier generation of children.” (Leonard). Healthy Hunger- Free Act went into effect in 2012 some of the changes were that meals needed 5 components: grain, meat, fruit, vegetable, and milk. Students MUST take at least 1/2 cup of fruit OR vegetable for a meal.
Pomeranz, Jennifer L. "A Comprehensive Strategy To Overhaul FDA Authority For Misleading Food Labels." American Journal Of Law & Medicine 39.4 (2013): 617-647. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Apr. 2014.
With the implementation of the “Healthy Kids Hunger-Free Act” schools are not serving as many lunches and participation is decreasing. According to the Government Accountability Office (GOA), “Nationwide, student participation declined by 1.2 million students(or 3.7 percent) from school year 2010-2011 through school year 2012-2013, after having increased steadily for many years”(sec. 1). The school lunches became more distasteful and bland; the combinations of foods did not make sense, and the portion sizes decreased significantly. In order to support the cafeteria
At this point, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has started increasing regulations for prepared foods, however, only a few years ago they had some vague laws concerning these foods and companies could get away a lot more than they can now. One of the reasons for this was that the FDA was more concerned about the certain effects store bought food had on people and were less concerned about misleading labels on packaging. However, they seem to have become more aware of the fact that a lot of companies are tricking consumers into believing that their product is the best, and the FDA has started to regulate companies that have misleading advertisements.
First off, The government of the United States of America is ultimately responsible for keeping our foods safe. Many of the Presidents of the major food companies also obtain government jobs. When a problem occurs with food and a food has to be recalled a change has to be made. Someone comes up with a law to make sure that the problem does not occur again. The government evaluates the law and either passes or denies it. The type of foods that we buy from the grocery store were pre evaluated by the government. I think the reason why most foods are unsafe and are still being obtained by local residents is because the major food companies work and make deals with government so