Farm to Table Safety Act

Bill: 114-hr-3540
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2015-09-17
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education

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: 2015-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-09-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Farm to Table Safety Act</b></p> <p> 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. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3540 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 17, 2015 Mr. Cárdenas (for himself and Ms. Norton ) 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. Short title This Act may be cited as the Farm to Table Safety Act . 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. .