The Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reports that 39 state Legislatures continue to be in session, and most of those are just getting interesting with a month or two remaining before they adjourn for the year.
So while it’s over for the western states of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah
Continue Reading Food safety keeps popping up as Legislatures are getting into the thick of things
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By Jane M. Caldwell
Portions of this article were originally published in Food Technology magazine.
This session the Missouri General Assembly will consider whether the sale of raw milk should be legal in the “Show Me” state.
Rep. Ann Kelley, R-Lamar, pre-filed House Bill 78 and Sen.
Continue Reading Raw milk is dangerous; opposition to Missouri bills is necessary for safety
Governor Brian P. Kemp made a special occasion earlier this month for signage of his administration’s Georgia Grown Farm to Food Bank legislation (SB 396), the Freedom to Farm Act (HB 1150), and a bill to expand the elementary agriculture education program (HB 1303).
Continue Reading Raw milk wins in Georgia, runs ahead in Missouri, but dies in Iowa
Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and a sixth is about the join the Show-Me-State ban.
It means at least seven new
Continue Reading The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
Commercial speech is not easily restricted. Earlier this summer, some state restrictions on speech by companies in the alcohol business were struck down by a federal court.
Missouri’s first in the country state law prevents vegan and plant-based businesses from using words like “meat” and “beef” and “chicken” and “sausage”
Continue Reading Debate about who can call ‘it’ meat moves to the federal court system
If you’ve ever gotten in trouble for coming home with almond milk instead of cow milk, and if you favor labeling food containing GMOs because of your right to know, you are going to love Missouri House Bill 2607. It would set labeling rules to prevent anyone from slipping lab-created
Continue Reading Big meat says people have a right to know if meat isn’t meat
Another case of hepatitis A has been confirmed in a food handler who worked while potentially contagious at a Huddle House restaurant in Missouri.
Everyone who ate at the Huddle House restaurant in Poplar Bluff, MO, between Jan. 3 and Jan. 17 is advised to ask their doctors about what
Continue Reading Employee hepatitis A case confirmed at another Huddle House
Federal officials are attempting to seize more than $70,000 in raw camel milk products stored in a warehouse in Kansas City, KS, including some bearing labels from a Missouri dairy, because they were allegedly shipped in interstate commerce in violation of federal law.
In an action filed in U.S. District
Continue Reading Feds trying to seize raw camel milk suspected in interstate case
Public health officials in Missouri still have not named the restaurant in the state’s capital city where 14 out of 36 people with Salmonella infections ate before becoming ill.
The Cole County Health Department is investigating the outbreak with the help of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Continue Reading Officials won’t name restaurant in ongoing Missouri outbreak
A Missouri dairy owner is on notice from the FDA for selling unpasteurized, raw camel milk in interstate commerce, with the agency discounting the dairyman’s contention that camel milk is not covered by federal law.
This farm in Lancaster county, PA, is one of a handful
Continue Reading Missouri dairy told to stop interstate sales of raw camel milk
