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Farm to Table Safety Act

Introduced: September 17, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Oct 5, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Sep 17, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Sep 17, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now October 5, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.

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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Sep 17, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3540: Farm to Table Safety Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3540/
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"H.R. 3540: Farm to Table Safety Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3540/.
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H.R. 3540, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3540/.
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