Senate Judiciary Approves Amended Bill on Criminal Penalties for Certain Food Violations
On September 23, 2010, the Senate Judiciary Committee ordered favorably reported (i.e, approved) with an amendment in the nature of a substitute1 the Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010 (S. 3767), a bill to establish criminal penalties for “knowing” violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.
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The bill’s sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chair Leahy (D) is urging its adoption following the recent national recall of eggs linked to hundreds of cases of salmonella poisoning across the U.S. He said the bill now awaits consideration by the full Senate.
The approved version as amended is not yet available. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 09/21/10 news, 10092116, for BP summary of the bill as introduced on September 13, 2010.)
1An amendment in the nature of a substitute is an amendment that strikes out the entire text of a bill and inserts a different full text. An amendment in the nature of a substitute can be similar to the bill it replaces, or quite different.
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 09/07/10 and 09/24/10 news, 10090717 and 10092419, for BP summaries of a S. 510, the broader, Senate “Food Safety Bill,” which does not increase criminal penalties for food safety violations and which was blocked from Senate on September 22, 2010.)