Washington, D.C. – Brian Cute, Vice President of Discovery Services for Afilias, today issued the following statement in response to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on proposed food safety legislation entitled the “Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.”

“Chairs Dingell and Waxman have taken a bold step forward to create policies that will bring much needed reform across our food safety system to ensure that Americans are shielded from harmful and contaminated food products. Key to the success of this legislation are critical food traceability provisions that will for the first time ensure that the U.S. moves toward achieving true ‘end-to-end’ traceability within our food supply chains and enabling efficient and targeted food recalls. This legislation comes at a time when food recalls are hurting consumers, farmers and small business across the nation. Our recall system is outdated and inefficient and the U.S. lacks a modern technological solution to track and trace foods from ‘farm to fork.’”

About Afilias
Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias' reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Service.

About Afilias Discovery Services
Afilias Discovery Services is a standards-based hosted registry service providing true end-to-end traceability. ADS allows you to securely and selectively share "track and trace" information.  Fully interoperable and identifier agnostic, with ADS you can conduct surgically precise product recalls, improving consumer safety and confidence while reducing business impacts. For additional information visit www.afilias.info/ads 

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For more information about Afilias Discovery Services or to speak with Brian Cute, please contact David Mayorga at 202-683-3118 or dmayorga@qorvis.com