This is directly from THOMAS H.R.875 Title: To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] (introduced 2/4/2009) Cosponsors (41) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY AS OF: 2/4/2009--Introduced. Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Food Safety Administration. Assigns all the authorities and responsibilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services related to food safety to the Administrator of Food Safety. Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws. Renames the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Federal Drug and Device Administration. Directs the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program; and (2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food prevent or minimize food safety hazards. Sets forth requirements for the Administrator to carry out such duties, including: (1) requiring food establishments to adopt preventive process controls; (2) enforcing performance standards for food safety; (3) establishing an inspection program; (4) strengthening and expanding foodborne illness surveillance systems; (5) requiring imported food to meet the same standards as U.S. food; and (6) establishing a national traceability system for food. Requires the Administrator to: (1) identify priorities for food safety research and data collection; (2) maintain a DNA matching system and epidemiological system for foodborne illness identification, outbreaks, and containment; (3) establish guidelines for a sampling system; (4) establish a national public education program on food safety; (5) conduct research on food safety; and (6) establish a working group on foodborne illness surveillance. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop the Food-Borne Illness Health Registry. Directs the Comptroller General to report on the federal resources being dedicated to foodborne illness and food safety research. Sets forth provisions regarding prohibited acts, recalls, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistleblower protections, and civil actions.

Thank you so much htnspz and palimpsest. I really appreciate it. I'll be keeping a watch on this. I tried to find them by doing tons of image searches with all sorts of wording, but could find nothing quite like them. I told the guy that wants them I'd find out more about them before giving him a price, but like I said above I have no idea what that should be. I had originally thought I'd slipcover them for the Ladies Parlor but I made enough money in November and December to just buy four new slipper chairs which is what I originally wanted anyway. Not as MCM looking as I hoped, but I'm happy.

Here you can find a review of this camera. http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/hp735.htm I find a digital slr, like my Pentax ist*D better for pictures of my garden, but the HP sounds like a good camera to start with and learn about taking pictures of your garden. You can decide after using it for awhile if the HP is all you need or want to move up to a better camera. I hope you enjoy taking pictures of your garden as much as I do, taking pictures of the flowers and wildlife in mine.

It would probably be more "purple" and less "red" in less blistering sun/heat, Lisa. It is called a "hybrid musk", which means a hybrid multiflora and that translates to an arching shrub to climber, depending upon the climate and conditions it's grown under. Just like all the others. Penelope, Kathleen, Buff Beauty, all of them can make rather hefty climbers if they're not whacked severely and they grow in a climate which doesn't limit their development. It's very much like the Austin roses. Where the climate is harsh, they are bushes. Many here, where nothing other than deer, fires, drought, gophers, rabbits or your gardener limit them, they can get huge.