When U.S. Sen.
Richard Blumenthal Speaks?
It would behoove the
country to listen.
If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
refuses to care for
the country
rather than only
their pocketbooks,
we must fire them!
So for those of you
that do not know.
Who is Richard Blumenthal?
U.S. Sen. Richard
Blumenthal
a Senator from
Connecticut;
Born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., February 13, 1946;
Graduated Harvard
University, B.A., 1967;
Attended Cambridge
University, 1967-1968;
Graduated Yale
University, J.D., 1973;
Editor-in-chief of
the Yale Law Journal;
Served in the United
States Marine Corps Reserves 1970-1976;
White House aide
1969-1970;
Law clerk to United
States Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun 1974-1975;
Administrative
assistant to Senator Abraham Ribicoff 1975-1976;
United States
Attorney for Connecticut 1977-1981;
Lawyer; member of
the Connecticut state house of representatives 1984-1987;
Member of the
Connecticut state senate 1987-1990;
Attorney general of
Connecticut 1991-2010;
Elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 2010
for the term ending January 3,
2017.
Updated June 01.
2016 11:30PM
By Lee Howard
Day staff writer
With the last major
overhaul of U.S. labeling laws having occurred more than a quarter century ago,
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that
it's time at the very least that
regulators make clear which foods can be called
"natural."
The Connecticut
Democrat, during a stop in New Haven,
urged the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to define "natural"
as
products avoiding artificial
ingredients, synthetic substances,
pesticides and growth hormones.
He added that
food
produced with genetically modified organisms
also
could be banned from being
labeled
"natural."
"The FDA really
is aiding and abetting the big food companies in effect
by default when it
fails to provide some rules or standards,"
Blumenthal said in a phone
interview later during a stop in Norwich.
"Nothing is
more important to health than eating right,
and
consumers have never been more
health conscious,"
he said.