The feds want to "dumb down" the standards to the lowest
common denominator. Remember this vote at election time.

The voting results:
71 democrats voted yes, 212 republicans voted yes.
125 democrats voted no, 13 republicans voted no.
It passed.


http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/votes060302.cfm

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 - The House is expected to vote Thursday on a bill
that
would pre-empt all state food safety regulations that are more stringent
than federal standards.

The measure would require uniformity on warning labels and set standards
that would affect a wide variety of state regulations.

But critics of the measure - including state departments of agriculture,
state food and drug officials, the National Conference of State
Legislatures, the California attorney general and a long list of consumer
advocacy groups - say it would gut all state regulations, including food
safety investigations and sanitation standards for restaurants. In some
instances, they say, the bill would replace regulations with nothing
because
there are no federal standards.

For example, the bill would pre-empt California's Proposition 65, a 1986
law that requires consumer notification about contaminants known to cause
cancer or birth defects.