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"Kevin's Law" was made to give the USDA

power to shut down plants that was repeatedly producing meat that's contaminated with E-coli or other deadly pathogens.

The plan was that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would take test to see if the plant would fail. If it repeatedly failed, then the plant would be shut down. The Meat Poultry Associations had took the USDA to court, which the courts said that the USDA doesn’t have control to shut down the plant. Also meaning that they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

The Act was created in 2003, but introduced in Washington D.C. on June 30, 2005 by sponser Anna Eshoo. It was set to set standards to reducing pathogens in meat in order to protect the public health. The Secretary of USDA would update and be checked every 3 years to see if the standards were met, enforce the standards, and provide evidence. The Secretary would also do surveys to see if the standards were met. It also included testing the plants on a regular basis to see if reduction has been made. As people can see, the bill has NEVER been passed.

*quick fact*

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that

foodborne diseases cause roughly 76 million illnesses,

325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths each year.

National Academy of Sciences and the National Advisory Committee for Microbiological Criteria for Foods also support greater enforcement on food safety standards.

It was referred to the committee, but was never reported and voted on. The bill has been brought up more than once, but as of April 2010, it hasn’t been reported out of committee. People, meat processors in particular, have lobbied against the bill to pass, because they’ve complained about how it would increase food pricing, and felt that it was unnecessary.

Barbara wanted the Meat Poultry Association to apologize for their meat killing her child, and from them to come up with a way so that it would never happen again. As she quotes in the movie Food Inc., "They couldn't give us that." 10 years after the death of Kevin Kowalcyk, 8 years after the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act was created, it has not yet been passed.

If the bill is passed, food would be more

expensive. If this bill is not passed, others

could die the way Kevin did by eating

meat with deadly pathogens.

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