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Food and food safety were on the dockets of many state legislatures in 2021

By News Desk on June 28, 2021

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,…
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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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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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NCSL helps make sense out of a maze of state food safety laws

By Dan Flynn on February 5, 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…
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It’s getting harder to open those raw milk loopholes

By Dan Flynn on March 15, 2018

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…
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Food safety rules likely to dodge the regulatory reform bullet

By Dan Flynn on February 8, 2017

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…
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Voters in four cities to decide on local soda taxes

By Dan Flynn on November 4, 2016

Berkeley, CA and Boulder, CO, are among a handful of America’s most liberal cities who’ve both often been accused of never having met a tax they did not like.

Berkeley two years ago became the…
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State Lawmakers Go Back to Work As Food Trends Turn Popular

By News Desk on January 11, 2016

Ahead of standing for election later this year, lawmakers in most states are getting down to business again.  Another 20 state legislatures will convene this week. When added to the dozen that got underway last…
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Half the States Have Joined the ‘Powdered Alcohol Prohibition’

By Dan Flynn on August 19, 2015

The “powdered alcohol prohibition” rose up quickly. Before 2014, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), just two states had existing statutes that would affect the sale of powdered alcohol products. palcohol_406x250Alaska…
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NCSL Maps State Raw Milk Laws as 2015 Legislatures Reach Adjournment

By Dan Flynn on June 8, 2015

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…
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