Each year, millions of people become ill and up to 5,000 die from contaminated food. The Recipe for Safe Food is a legislative campaign to give the government better tools to clean up America's food supply. The Recipe for Safe Food is a consumer-oriented legislative platform designed to clean up America's food supply. In addition, it has directed resources to addressing issues linked to bacterial, viral, and parasitic contamination of foods.
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The illnesses and deaths did not stop until the USDA issued its own press release on the recall. Give the government the power and organization to improve the safety of shell eggs . Currently, regulation is split between two agencies, each with different policies. Under this system, many of the estimated 2.3 million eggs laid each year with contaminated Salmonella enteritidis reach consumers, causing hundreds of thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths. This bill will put egg regulation into the hands of USDA, and requires flock testing and pasteurization to reduce the rate of food poisoning.