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I was excited last week when Doug Farquhar, the National Environmental Health Association’s government affairs director, presented the final report on State Legislative actions for 2024.
I want to take the opportunity to point out a couple of things from that report.
Doug has been kind enough
Continue Reading A look back at the trends in state legislatures this year
Editor’s Note: Thirty years ago, hundreds of reporters were assigned to cover State Legislatures, and competing wire services tracked everything. Today’s corporate entertainment media sees all that as an unnecessary expense, and state legislative coverage has become thin to zero.
That makes it a real challenge for those of us
Continue Reading The Farquhar report on 2024 state Legislative food safety actions
Editor’s Note: With permission, Food Safety News today posts the 2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislature by Doug Farquhar, JD, Government Affairs Director for the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA).
Until a handful of years ago, nothing this current or comprehensive existed regarding reporting on recent actions by
Continue Reading 2023 Update on state food safety legislation
Wyoming, Utah and Virginia are among the states that have completed their legislative business for the year. The others might be best said to be at their halfway point. To keep track of state action on food safety and related bills, we’ve again turned to Doug Farquhar, JD
Farquhar is
Continue Reading At the mid-point, state legislatures have passed four food safety-related bills with many others pending
With permission, we repost Doug Farquhar’s most recent summary of food and food safety legislative actions by states.
By Doug Farquhar, JD
State legislatures introduced several hundred bills related to food during their 2021 legislative sessions. Almost every state introduced legislation regarding food. From food delivery, cannabis, and coronavirus
Continue Reading 2021’s enacted state legislation regarding food and food safety
Editor’s Note: The following article was first published this past Wednesday by the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) under the headline: “2021 State Enacted Legislation: Food June 2021.” The author is Doug Farquhar, JD, who is NEHA’s new director of its Government Affairs department.
Until late 2020, Farquhar was
Continue Reading Food and food safety were on the dockets of many state legislatures in 2021
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 Farquhar, an NCSL staff lawyer, pulls together all the action involving food and food safety
Continue Reading Food safety was riding high in state legislatures in 2019
Food safety has made it with the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures. The NCSL is the independent authority on the legislative bodies that govern America’s states and territories.
With funding assistance from The Pew Charitable Trusts and NSF International, food safety has taken its place in the NCSL’s searchable
Continue Reading NCSL helps make sense out of a maze of state food safety laws
Perhaps no other organization in the country is better positioned to know the best time for drawing a new map of current state raw milk laws and policies than the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The bipartisan group, based in Denver, closely tracks state and territorial legislative
Continue Reading NCSL Maps State Raw Milk Laws as 2015 Legislatures Reach Adjournment
