Dire Consequences of FDA’s new Food Safety Modernization Act

We tried to warn you about the FDA’s new Food Safety Modernization Act. We said it looked like a way to enforce and cooperate with the the UN’s ‘Codex Alimentarius‘.

From the Codex website: “The Codex Alimentarius Commission, established by FAO and WHO in 1963 develops harmonised international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice to protect the health of the consumers and ensure fair trade practices in the food trade. The Commission also promotes coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.” For more information see here.

In the section ‘Understanding Codex’ it says, “The Codex Alimentarius, or the food code, has become the global reference point for consumers, food producers and processors, national food control agencies and the international food trade.”

As we state previously, we suspect that the FDA’s new Food Safety Modernization Act was a way to put into compliance this international ‘soft law’.

This law has already had dire consequences for the small business farmer and eventually, may affect homeowners who simply grow things for their own or their neighbors’ use. We saw intrusive questions being asked of homeowners by way of the American Community Survey – (see questions here), a form sent out in conjunction with the Census regarding food grown on private property. Many wisely refused to answer such questions.

From the National Conference on State Legislatures:

“Perhaps the most relevant section of the FSMA is the section on enhanced partnerships.The FSMA relies on current food safety policies and programs to implement its provisions. It enhances the current system by building a formal system of collaboration with other government agencies, both domestic and foreign.he statute explicitly recognizes that all food safety agencies need to work together in an integrated way to achieve the public health goals the FSMA seeks. Enhanced collaboration with other governments include: …Foreign capacity building: Section 306 and 307 of the law directs FDA to develop a comprehensive plan to expand the capacity of foreign governments and their industries. One component of the plan is to address training of foreign governments and food producers on U.S. food safety requirements. FDA must develop a comprehensive plan to expand the technical, scientific, and regulatory capacity of foreign governments and their respective food industries that export foods to the US, including bilateral and multilateral agreements on food safety, provisions for electronic data sharing, provisions for mutual recognition of inspection reports, laboratory methodologies, and detection techniques. The FDA must devise a program to train foreign governments and food producers on U.S. requirements for safe food. The agency must make a recommendation on whether and how to harmonize its requirements with requirements found under the Codex Alimentarius (an international food code standard). The act allows FDA to enter into agreements with foreign governments to facilitate inspections of foreign facilities.”

If you don’t think the UN isn’t controlling us with ‘international law’ at this point, you are sadly mistaken. These soft law enforcements of resolutions and declarations by the United Nations are killing our sovereignty. Don’t say you were not warned.

Realated: Morningland Dairy