{"id":32070,"date":"2013-01-04T22:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/new-food-safety-rules.html"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:41:31","slug":"new-food-safety-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/new-food-safety-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"New food safety rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About damned time.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;The FDA&#39;s proposed rules would require farmers to take new precautions against contamination, to include making sure workers&#39; hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and that animals stay out of fields. Food manufacturers will have to submit food safety plans to the government to show they are keeping their operations clean.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How sad that such things would be considered by some to be so radical.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site333\/2013\/0104\/20130104__USFoodSafety~1_VIEWER.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_22310889\/fda-issues-sweeping-new-food-safety-rules'>FDA proposes sweeping new food safety rules<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWASHINGTON\u2014The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4BKqVP1tD9w' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4BKqVP1tD9w' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About damned time. &#39;The FDA&#39;s proposed rules would require farmers to take new precautions against contamination, to include making sure workers&#39; hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and that animals stay out of fields. Food manufacturers will have to submit food safety plans to the government to show they are keeping their operations clean.&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/new-food-safety-rules.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New food safety rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14705,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/in-a-perfect-world.html","url_meta":{"origin":32070,"position":0},"title":"In a perfect world &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-May-09 11:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Daily KOS writer Devilstower writes an excellent article on\u00a0\"How Freedom Was Lost,\" about why it is that we don't live in a Randian Libertarian Paradise where government is non-existent and people can pursue their personal profit to their hearts' content. 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