On November 22, 75 U.S. Senators and Representatives from both parties signed a joint letter calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an amendment to the Produce and Preventive Controls Rules in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), claiming that the current FSMA draft will seriously damage the comprehensive strength of American agriculture and her position in the world. Recently, the FDA received a total of 20,000 copies of written comments on the Produce and Preventive Controls Rules