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
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
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
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
Continue Reading Food safety rules likely to dodge the regulatory reform bullet
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
Continue Reading Voters in four cities to decide on local soda taxes
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
Continue Reading State Lawmakers Go Back to Work As Food Trends Turn Popular
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. 
Alaska
Continue Reading Half the States Have Joined the ‘Powdered Alcohol Prohibition’
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
Continue Reading NCSL Maps State Raw Milk Laws as 2015 Legislatures Reach Adjournment
This week marked the beginning of what’s called “the peaking season” for state lawmakers, and it’s seen some food-safety-related bills moving forward without producing any big trends. The “peaking season” refers to the fact that
Continue Reading Peak of 2015 Legislative Season Underway for State Lawmakers
Is it possible that enough cottage food bills got passed to carry the economy through to recovery, that most folks are happy with their raw-milk laws, and that the once-heralded “food freedom” movement never got
Continue Reading Food Safety Not a Likely Hot Topic for 2015 Legislatures
Legislators and the rest of the policy crowd that hang out in the state capitols are again coming in for the unsolicited advice from the national editorial writers who want to influence processes on a
Continue Reading Food Safety Issues Making Their Way to 2015 Legislative Agendas
