the food safety and hanssen act is a measured and effective response to the dire situation we are faced with today regarding food safety. mr. chairman, the legislation is based on a bill you, chairman stupak and i introduced earlier this year, and also on a bill that was introduced by me during the past days during the past congress. it includes good technical advice from fda and valued input from the minority and other stakeholders. i want to make clear that i am working with the minority to try to resolve their concerns. and that we are also working with the industry, and i want to thank my friends in the industry for the goodwill which they have shown in working with us. i also want to thank chairman waxman for his leadership on this point. i look forward to continued deliberations in the hope of producing speedily a bipartisan piece of legislation that will pass the committee and the house as i have indicated both in a correct and speedy fashion. amongst other things, this bill will prevent safety problems before they occur. it will require manufacturers to implement food safety pla