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Related: About this forumHouse votes to delay food safety rules
House votes to delay food safety rules
WASHINGTON The House voted late Wednesday to delay sweeping food safety rules that would require farmers and food companies to be more vigilant about guarding against contamination.
Lawmakers adopted an amendment by voice vote to a wide-ranging farm bill just before midnight that would delay the rules signed into law in 2011 until the Food and Drug Administration conducts a study on their economic impacts.
The proposed rules would require farmers to take new precautions against contamination, to include making sure workers' hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and that animals stay out of fields, among other measures.
The amendment was offered by Republican Rep. Dan Benishek of Michigan, who said the regulations would be burdensome to farmers in his district.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130620/us-farm-bill/
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House votes to delay food safety rules (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)1. The House better NOT delay this
OK, where are you Democrats?
BillyRibs
(787 posts)3. Wait a second!
I want to see the fine Print, I know quite a few small farmers, My wife works in a farmers market, and Don't want to see them hurt.
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)4. *facepalm*