Update: Senate Passes Good Food Safety Bill.
Family farm advocates celebrated the US Senate's passage of the Food
Safety Modernization Act (S.510) last Tuesday November 30. With wide
bipartisan support the bill passed the Senate 73-25. Kept intact were
amendments important to family scale operations including the Tester
Amendment. That amendment, sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester, an organic beef
farmer from Montana, exempts small farmers from new controls if they sell
directly to consumers and have annual sales of less than $500,000. The House
passed its own version of the Food Safety bill (H.R.2749) in July 2009.
However the House version lacks the scale-appropriate measures inserted into
the Senate bill. The Senate bill now goes to the House for action.
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Jeanne
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