Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Food Safety News reported the development on 2026-07-01. Bring the FDA, Dairy Farmers of America, Organic West Milk, and Nara Organics before this Committee and put the disclosure failure of 2025 on the public record — so the next reform is built on what actually happened, not on what anyone is willing to volunteer.

The report places the news in a wider commercial context. The Honorable Bill Cassidy, M.D., ChairmanThe Honorable Bernie Sanders, Ranking MemberCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsUnited States Senate428 Senate Dirksen Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510. Re: Finish what the Senate started — botulism in infant formula, the shared milk and powdered-milk supply behind two outbreaks, and the case for hearings and parent testimony.

For the food sector, the practical implications extend beyond the immediate announcement. Dear Chairman Cassidy, Ranking Member Sanders, and Members of the Committee:. For more than thirty years — since the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak — I have represented children and families poisoned by food they trusted.

Attention now turns to how companies, customers and regulators respond. You have already led on this — and it mattered. Let me begin with credit, because you have earned it. On April 29, 2026, this Committee reported the Protect Infant Formula from Contamination Act, S. 272, favorably by a vote of 22 to 0, and the full Senate passed it the same day by unanimous consent.[2] Bipartisan legislation, introduced by Senators Gary Peters and John Hoeven, cleared.