Farm to Table Safety Act

Farm to Table Safety Act

This bill amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to modify the food safety education program authorized in the Act. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) include farm workers in the program; and (2) expand the scope of the program to include practices that prevent bacterial contamination of food, methods of identifying sources of food contamination, and other means of decreasing food contamination.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4400 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4400

    To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to make 
  improvements to the food safety education program carried out under 
                   such Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2017

  Mr. Cardenas (for himself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to make 
  improvements to the food safety education program carried out under 
                   such Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Farm to Table Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION INITIATIVES.

    Section 10105(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 7655a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting ``, 
        including farm workers,'' after ``industry'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) practices that prevent bacterial contamination of 
        food, how to identify sources of food contamination, and other 
        means of decreasing food contamination.''.
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