to post prominently a list of recently recalled foods.

* The FDA gains more control over food imports, including increased inspection of foreign processing plants and the ability to set standards for how fruits and vegetables are grown abroad.

While the bill covers about 80% of the U.S. food supply, it does not cover slaughterhouses or most meat and poultry processing plants. Those still fall under the jurisdiction of the Dept. of Agriculture.

The legislation has been welcomed by large food producers who have recently taken huge hits from tainted foods like eggs, peanut butter and spinach. Even those who weren't responsible for recalled products still feel the sting as consumers shy away from buying these items.

Meanwhile, advocates for smaller farmers who sell a majority of their produce locally say theTimes on Sunday det-ailing the candid conversations between
Washington and embassies around the world.

The documents show that Chinese government operatives have waged a
coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting US and its allies.
Some of the cables, made available to The Times were written in February
2010.

Gaming out an eventual collapse of North Korea: American and South
Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea,
should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the
state to implode. The South Koreans even considered commercial
inducements to China, according to the American ambassador to Seoul. She
told Washington in February that South Koreans believe that the right
business deals would ‘help salve’ China’s “concerns about living with a
reunified Korea” that is in a ‘benign alliance’ with US.

Bargaining to empty the Gitmo prison: When American diplomats pressed
other countries