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Montana signs shipment agreement with USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service

By News Desk on March 22, 2022

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the State of Montana have finalized a Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement, which provides an opportunity for selected state-inspected meat and poultry processors to ship their products…
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A ‘Top Ten’ of 2021’s news events

By Dan Flynn on December 29, 2021

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Editor’s Note:  We try to frame 10 of the most important happenings every year, but it’s not just about the “Top Ten Stories.” That is because what is essential is rarely about …
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Montana Legislature sends ‘Local Food Choice Act’ to governor; no license needed

By Dan Flynn on April 30, 2021

Tne Montana Local Food Choice Act is on the governor’s desk. It passed on the third and final readings in the House, 70-20, and the Senate, 32 to 18.  Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte will likely …
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Sponsor promises to amend Montana Food Freedom bill to make it passable

By Dan Flynn on March 2, 2021

Enthusiasm is building in Montana for a Food Freedom bill that may be fatally flawed in its major elements. The major sponsor, Sen. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, has promised to keep working on the bill to …
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The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states

By Dan Flynn on April 5, 2019

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…
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3 states join contested Missouri ban on using “meat” on cell-cultured product labels

By Dan Flynn on April 3, 2019

While lawyers continue talking in Missouri, lawmakers in at least three more states have passed bills to legally prohibit “mislabeling” of food products derived from animal cultures, plants or insects as meat.

Mississippi Gov, Phil…
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Montana again smacks down efforts to legalize sales of unpasteurized milk

By Dan Flynn on February 26, 2019

Lingering death is the usual means for killing legislative bills, but there’s also the swift smackdown method. The Montana Legislature used that second method, also known as tabling, to cut down House Bills 516 and…
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Allergic reaction prompts Royal Asia to recall soup from Costco

By News Desk on October 5, 2017

Tai Foong USA of Seattle is recalling Royal Asia branded frozen “Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup” — sold exclusively at Costco stores in six states — because it contains egg that is not declared on the…
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Sales of raw milk remain illegal under Montana’s Big Sky

By Dan Flynn on April 12, 2017

montanacapitol_406x250House Bill 325, which would have provided a small herd exemption for raw milk sales, is probably dead for the legislative session after failing Tuesday to get a majority vote on second reading in the…
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Lawmaker has ‘insurance’ ready if Montana OKs raw milk sales

By Dan Flynn on April 5, 2017

Montana State Sen. Diane Sands knows from her own studies as the retired development director of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula that infant mortality improved and stillbirths declined after pasteurized milk became available.

That’s…
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