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FDA Reform with Senator Dick Durbin - Oct 14th, 2009

Chef2Chef : C2C TWITTER CHAT START :: FDA Reform with Senator Dick Durbin #chef2chef
5:33 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Call has started, listening to Donna Rosenbaum #chef2chef
5:34 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Visit www.SafeTables.org for safety alerts about food #chef2chef
5:36 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Riley is now speaking. She is a 12 year-old who got sick from E.Coli during the spinach outbreak. #chef2chef
5:37 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Three speakers tonight: Riley - 12 yr.old food reform lobbyist, Sen Durban from ILL and Mike Taylor from the FDA #chef2chef
5:38 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @Katie_Stanton rylee's talking now, omg, this girl severe symptoms from unsafe food, spent month in hospital #chef2chef
5:39 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Senator Durbin is now on #chef2chef
5:40 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Riley wants to let everyone know there will be horrible consequences if the law isn't changed #chef2chef
5:40 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Senator Durbin, is a food safety champion #chef2chef
5:41 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef
5:41 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @Katie_Stanton RT @soapboxmom: 76 million Americans (almost 1 in 3) become ill from food every year! #chef2chef
5:41 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Sen Durbin says that Nancy Donnelly is his inspiration - she lost her boy to food poisoning #chef2chef
5:43 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Sen Durbin is working on the Food Modernization Act - about to hear more about it #chef2chef
5:44 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef curious as to why there is nothing done about junk food in this country.disgusting that grocery stores display junk at doorways!
5:45 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Senators on both sides are working to make this bill happen #chef2chef
5:45 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef with obesity an epidemic worse than any H1n1 flu epidemic not a darn thing is said to the junk food manufacturers!
5:46 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @PunditMom Food Modernization Act, bipartisan effort, require cos. analyze food safety hazards, FDA access 2 records #chef2chef
5:46 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : $825 million will be given to increase field inspectors #chef2chef
5:47 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Final speaker tonight: Mike Taylor from the FDA #chef2chef
5:47 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @SafeTables: Are you getting our alerts? #foodsafety - sign up at www.safetables.org #fem2 #fb #foodsafety #chef2chef
5:48 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef Frito-lay gets away with it because they donate so much lobby money, is that it? tons of that stuff piled in store entrances.
5:48 pm Oct 14th 2009
smartkahuna : Chicago health inspectors freaking out over canning by pro chefs?! But fail to keep industrial food safe http://ow.ly/utCA #chef2chef
5:50 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef Become? ill. heart disease is a major killer. so is diabetes. cardiovascular disease is starting in children, don't you get it?
5:50 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : "This legislation would modernize our authority... empower FDA to prevent food borne illness" #chef2chef
5:50 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Taylor: "All companies must be held to certain standards" #chef2chef
5:51 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef congress, sentate,this is NOT going away.you cannot teach it,you can not fix it with health care or exercise.The food has to GO!
5:51 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @GloPan: FDA would FINALLY have mandatory food recall authority #chef2chef
5:52 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : This bill would be an integrated national effort #chef2chef
5:52 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : A key challenge would be imports - FDA needs more authority #chef2chef
5:52 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef junk food has to go, out of this country, out of our lives. it has no place in America, It's killing our people.screw pepsico!
5:53 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : With this bill they'd be able to hold importers more accountable and hold them to US food safety standards #chef2chef
5:53 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA: working hard to implement the law. Grateful to Congress for increasing the FDA funding. #chef2chef
5:53 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : With extra funding they are adding new training, building new labs, better science and trying to prevent problems. #chef2chef
5:54 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @SafeTables: Did you know that we inspect less than 1 percent of imported foods #foodsafety #chef2chef
5:55 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @GloPan Raise number of food inspectors from 3,500 to 5,000 #foodsafety #chef2chef
5:55 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA has a sense of urgency solving these problems #chef2chef
5:55 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : They want to build a modern food system at FDA - they have the potential and capacity, but they need support! #chef2chef
5:56 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA is committed to reducing the chances that Riley or anyone else has to go through that sickness. #chef2chef
5:56 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : #chef2chef in addition to food poisoning, junk food is poison too! Obesity is killing our kids too! just look at the CDC numbers!
5:56 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Now onto questions about food safety #chef2chef
5:57 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : What do you guys think about the food safety issues in the US? #chef2chef
5:58 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : How are they going to fund more inspections? #chef2chef
5:59 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Answer: Companies that violate the food safety laws will have to reimburse the FDA for their investigation costs #chef2chef
6:00 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @SafeTables Hello All - Any questions you have can be passed along if they are not answered tonight! Keep tweeting! #chef2chef
6:01 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : It's not the FDA's goal to go into individual farms across America #chef2chef
6:04 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA just wants to make sure that htose that handle the food are consistent with good public health #chef2chef
6:04 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Sen Durbin says he wants to make sure process facilities meet good health and safety standards #chef2chef
6:06 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA is committed to developing rules to produce safety but still take into account the differences #chef2chef
6:07 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Sen Durbin wants to focus on food processors #chef2chef
6:07 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @PunditMom FDA rep. says traceability is crucial for #foodsafety. #chef2chef
6:08 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : FDA will have authority to suspend food facility - no monetary penalties - but subject to recall and re-inspection #chef2chef
6:09 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Sen Durbin signs off #chef2chef
6:10 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : @Chef2Chef #chef2chef where's @marionnestle ?
6:11 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Taylor: FDA needs tools to act immediately to take of situations that are creating a hazard #chef2chef
6:11 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : If this bill passes, how will the role of the FDA change? Will it be able to accept the responsibilities? #chef2chef
6:13 pm Oct 14th 2009
ocdgirl2000 : @Chef2Chef #chef2chef that would have been a good invite... oh well..
6:14 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Changes will be the field compliance and how they collect evidence #chef2chef
6:14 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : The S510 lets them make on the spot decisions and enable them to use their authority to immediately get control of the situation #chef2chef
6:15 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Last question! What's the role of federal v. state inspectors? #chef2chef
6:18 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Both state and federal standards must be enforced #chef2chef
6:19 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : The FDA wants to be held accountable for their job #chef2chef
6:20 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : RT @SafeTables Thanks for Joining us all - sign up for S.T.O.P. E-alerts - get notified of recalled food! www.safetables.org #chef2chef
6:20 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : Thanks for following! Conference is over! #chef2chef
6:21 pm Oct 14th 2009
Chef2Chef : C2C TWITTER CHAT END :: FDA Reform with Senator Dick Durbin #chef2chef
6:22 pm Oct 14th 2009
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