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Significant food safety action this past year during state legislative sessions

By News Desk on December 11, 2020

State legislatures introduced more than 700 bills regarding food and food safety in 2019, with 132 being enacted and 17 adopted into law, reports The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

Laws in 42 of…
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New York becomes third state to ban PFAS chemicals in food packaging

By News Desk on December 5, 2020

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that will help protect consumers from the harmful effects of a dangerous class of chemicals linked to serious health problems, according to Consumer Reports.

The new law…
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Activists successfully defend California law imposed on sale of out-of-state farm products

By Dan Flynn on October 23, 2020

Sometimes lawyers talk about being able to use a knothole in the law that allows them to pull through much more of their own arguments than one might ordinarily expect. California has managed to rely…
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Food safety was riding high in state legislatures in 2019

By Dan Flynn on March 13, 2020

Food safety was foremost among more than 700 food bills that the nation’s 50 state legislative bodies considered this past year, the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reports.

The exhaustive analysis by  Doug…
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Advertising raw milk in Kansas is okay, but producing it might be banned

By Dan Flynn on February 19, 2020

A Kansas review of raw milk policies includes everything from banning sales to requiring a 37-word warning label about the health risks of consuming unpasteurized milk.

Kansas does not permit sales of raw milk in…
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‘Microenterprise home kitchens’ look for food safety exemptions in Washington

By Dan Flynn on February 4, 2020

Writing in Forbes recently, Nick Sibilia, with the public interest law firm Institute forJustice, was positively giddy about the Food Freedom movement.

“Almost four years after the nation’s first ‘food freedom law was enacted, hundreds…
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Health council wants law on ‘cottage’ foods clarified to protect the public

By Coral Beach on October 31, 2019

North Dakota health officials want state legislators to clarify rules about so-called cottage foods because of concerns about botulism poisoning.

The State Health Council, which includes two state senators, approved the proposed changes during a…
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Now growing hemp, not deadly cantaloupe, Jensen brothers face felony charges in Kansas

By Dan Flynn on July 30, 2019

Former cantaloupe growers, brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen, owed $26,368 in restitution imposed by the U.S. District Court in Denver when they decided to work off their debt by helping with a family hemp growing…
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Exemptions added to state public disclosure act to get FDA to resume sharing information

By Dan Flynn on July 16, 2019

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is about to find out if appeasement works with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In 2018 the FDA stopped sharing nonpublic information with the state department (WSDA), and…
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Food Code: Not just bigwigs brewing up a batch of new regs

By Cookson Beecher on July 15, 2019

Sometimes it takes more than a sudden jolt to realize that something needs to be improved. And more times than not it takes some fine tuning, bolstered with a great deal of thought, time and…
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Vegetable garden bill is close to the last to get Gov. DeSantis’ attention

By Dan Flynn on June 19, 2019

On Tuesday in Tallahassee, after meeting with CDC boss Robert Redfield about the agency’s initiative that seeks to reduce new HIV transmission by 75 percent in five years, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went about signing…
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