The bipartisan voice for the nation’s state legislatures has expressed new confidence in the federal Food and Drug Administration for food safety. It is supporting adequate Congressional funding for FDA’s new Human Food program.
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), now led by Utah Senate President Pro Temp Wayne
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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
Fewer restrictions on raw milk sales and so-called “Food Freedom” bills have been popular in Statehouses for more than a decade now. And while these do not always break across partisan lines, it can be said they’ve been more popular since Republicans came to dominate state legislatures.
The change occurred
Continue Reading After the midterms, state food safety remains more in the hands of the GOP
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
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 the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia were enacted regarding food in
Continue Reading Significant food safety action this past year during state legislative sessions
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
Raw milk advocates have gained some ground in the last decade, going from 29 to 43 states that allow some way to sell milk without pasteurization. However, in only 12 states are retail sales of raw milk permitted, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. And 19 states ban
Continue Reading It’s getting harder to open those raw milk loopholes
Federal food safety agencies were not planning on drafting much in the way of new regulations in 2017, which might turn out to be a lucky stroke.
The only new regulations now on the horizon that are remotely related to food safety will implement the GMO labeling scheme adopted by
Continue Reading Food safety rules likely to dodge the regulatory reform bullet
