Food Safety on the Farm: Federal Programs and Selected Proposals

Becker, Geoffrey S.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Food safety;    Food law and legislation;    Agriculture;   

RP-ID  :  RL34612
RP-ID  :  RL34612_2009Mar19

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses bills introduced into the 110th Congress pertaining to food safety that could affect farmers and ranchers. Several of these bills would expressly have required enforceable on-farm safety standards. Others that focused primarily on post-harvest food safety measures nonetheless might have led to changes in on-farm practices if the regulated sectors (handlers and processors of agricultural products) placed new demands on their suppliers in order to comply. Similar proposals are re-emerging in the 111th Congress, where food safety reform is expected to be on the agenda.