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A bill is pending in the United States House of Representatives that would eliminate dozens of food safety and labeling laws.  The bill, H.R. 4167, the National Uniformity for Food Act, does this by stripping away the power of states to regulate food safety.

This bill was set to hit the House floor for a vote Thursday, March 2^nd – But the vote was delayed the night before to Wednesday, March 8th. Help us keep the pressure on to defeat this bill. Please contact your representatives TODAY and urge them to vote NO on HR 4167!

Under the guise of promoting “uniformity” of food safety and labeling laws in the U.S., the bill requires all state food safety laws to be identical to the requirements of the Federal Food and Drug Administration.  If the FDA has not passed a regulation on a food threat, then all state regulations on that threat would immediately be voided.  And, since the states regulate many food safety issues not covered by the FDA, many food safety laws will be voided and replaced with no law at all.  For example, the bill would preempt Alaska’s newly passed law to label genetically engineered fish and California’s Proposition 65, a very effective law that requires labeling of food and consumer products that contain substances known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. It would also threaten state laws governing the safety of milk and shellfish. The “uniformity” to be achieved by the bill is in many instances the uniform absence of food safety regulation that the food industry seeks.

If this bill passes, not only will hundreds of current state food safety laws face being overturned, future state food safety and labeling initiatives could be impossible to put in place.

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NOW AND URGE THEM TO VOTE NO ON H.R. 4167! 

You can also call the US House of Representatives main line to contact your representative by phone (202) 224-3121