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.

Bill: 113-hr-3495
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2013-11-14
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education

Department of Agriculture

Executive agency funding and structure

Food supply, safety, and labeling

Government information and archives

Health information and medical records

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Latest action: action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize appropriations for the food safety education program.</p> <p>Includes in such program education: (1) about practices that prevent bacterial contamination of food, how to identify sources of food contamination, and other means of decreasing food contamination; and (2) aimed at farm workers.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3495 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 14, 2013 Mr. Cárdenas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 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.

1. Food safety education initiatives Section 10105 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 7655 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting , including farm workers after industry ; (B) in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; (C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (D) 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. ; and (2) in subsection (c), by striking 2012 and inserting 2018 .