food safety bill draft introduced today in the US Senate. 

the summary

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090526/fsea_summary.pdf

166 page summary draft

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090526/fsea_summary.pdf

in short it will hurt sideliners and anyone trying to sell some farm related products on a 
small or regional scale. be sure and look at the summary and note the $1000 registration 
fee for all food processors with mandatory 18 month -3 yr FDA inspections.  it would be 
interesting know what the FDA would think about most honey houses.  

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