Restaurant Law Group

Right now, the Food Safety Act of 2007 is under consideration in the House. (The fact that it’s well into 2008 is not that surprising, but thanks for noticing.) The Act gives the FDA and the USDA the power to issue a mandatory recall of contaminated food. What’s missing from the act, according to an editorial in the Washington Post, is a provision that would require the food processing industry to track their products “from farm to to fork.” Certain legislators are pushing for the provision, and when the toll reaches a thousand or more sick from salmonella-bearing tomatoes, they should be able to get it passed.