Farm Compliance

While some progress was made during full committee markup, the passed legislation does include some of our initial concerns such as expanded authorization for to the Food and Drug Administration to mandate facility-specific product safety standards, allowing on-farm inspection and regulation and access to on-farm records which bring concerns of confidentiality. A positive outcome of the markup was that farms will be excluded from registration fees.

The food safety bill passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday and will proceed to the House floor for a vote.