Source: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/SB754_CD1_.HTM
Timestamp: 2019-10-21 04:42:06
Document Index: 644739953

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 112', 'art 112', 'art 112', 'art 112', 'art 112', 'art 112', '§145', '§145', '§145', '§145', '§145']

SB754 CD1
The purpose of this Act is to enact produce safety rules to authorize state department of agriculture inspectors to inspect and regulate farms producing food in the State to increase food safety.
"Covered activity" means growing, harvesting, packing, or holding covered produce on a farm. "Covered activity" includes manufacturing or processing of covered produce on a farm, but only to the extent that such activities are performed on raw agricultural commodities.
"Covered farm" means a farm with an average annual monetary value of produce sold during the previous three-year period equal to more than $25,000 on a two of three-year rolling basis, adjusted for inflation using 2016 as the baseline year for calculating the adjustment.
(1) A primary production operation under one management in one general, but not necessarily contiguous, physical location devoted to the growing of crops, the harvesting of crops, the raising of animals including seafood, or any combination of these activities; or
(2) A secondary activities operation, not located on a primary production farm, devoted to harvesting such as hulling or shelling, packing, or holding of raw agricultural commodities; provided that the primary production farm that grows, harvests, or raises the majority of the raw agricultural commodities harvested, packed, or held by the secondary activities farm owns, or jointly owns, a majority interest in the secondary activities farm.
The term "farm" includes operations that, in addition to these activities:
(1) Pack or hold raw agricultural commodities;
(2) Pack or hold processed food; provided that all processed food used in such activities is either consumed on that farm or another farm under the same management, or is processed food; and
(3) Manufacture or process food; provided that:
(i) Drying or dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct commodity such as drying or dehydrating grapes to produce raisins, and packaging and labeling such commodities, without additional manufacturing or processing such as slicing;
(ii) Treatment to manipulate the ripening of raw agricultural commodities, such as by treating produce with ethylene gas, and packaging and labeling treated raw agricultural commodities, without additional manufacturing or processing; or
(iii) Packaging and labeling raw agricultural commodities, when these activities do not involve additional manufacturing or processing such as irradiation.
"Fruit" means the edible reproductive body of a seed plant or tree nut such as apple, orange, and almond such that fruit means the harvestable or harvested part of a plant developed from a flower.
"Harvesting" means activities that are traditionally performed on farms for the purpose of removing raw agricultural commodities from the place they were grown or raised and preparing them for use as food. Harvesting is limited to activities performed on raw agricultural commodities, or on processed foods created by drying or dehydrating a raw agricultural commodity without additional manufacturing or processing, on a farm. "Harvesting" does not include activities that transform a raw agricultural commodity into a processed food. Examples of harvesting include cutting or otherwise separating the edible portion of the raw agricultural commodity from the crop plant and removing or trimming part of the raw agricultural commodity such as foliage, husks, roots or stems. Examples of harvesting also include cooling, field coring, filtering, gathering, hulling, shelling, sifting, threshing, trimming of outer leaves of, and washing raw agricultural commodities grown on a farm.
"Holding" means storage of food and also includes activities performed incidental to storage of a food such as activities performed for the safe or effective storage of that food, such as fumigating food during storage, and drying or dehydrating raw agricultural commodities when the drying or dehydrating does not create a distinct commodity such as drying or dehydrating hay or alfalfa. "Holding" also includes activities performed as a practical necessity for the distribution of that food such as blending of the same raw agricultural commodity and breaking down pallets, but does not include activities that transform a raw agricultural commodity into a processed food.
"Manufacturing or processing" means making food from one or more ingredients, or synthesizing, preparing, treating, modifying, or manipulating food, including food crops or ingredients. Examples include: Baking, boiling, bottling, canning, cooking, cooling, cutting, distilling, drying or dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct commodity such as drying or dehydrating grapes to produce raisins, evaporating, eviscerating, extracting juice, formulating, freezing, grinding, homogenizing, labeling, milling, mixing, packaging including modified atmosphere packaging, pasteurizing, peeling, rendering, treating to manipulate ripening, trimming, washing, or waxing. For farms and farm mixed-type facilities, manufacturing or processing does not include activities that are part of harvesting, packing, or holding.
"Packing" means placing food into a container other than packaging the food and also includes re-packing and activities performed incidental to packing or re-packing a food such as activities performed for the safe or effective packing or re-packing of that food such as sorting, culling, grading, and weighing or conveying incidental to packing or re-packing, but does not include activities that transform a raw agricultural commodity into a processed food.
"Processed food" means any food other than a raw agricultural commodity and includes any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing, such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydration, or milling.
"Produce" means any fruit or vegetable including mixes of intact fruits and vegetables and includes mushrooms, sprouts irrespective of seed source, peanuts, tree nuts, and herbs. "Produce" does not include food grains meaning the small, hard fruits or seeds of arable crops, or the crops bearing these fruits or seeds, that are primarily grown and processed for use as meal, flour, baked goods, cereals, and oils rather than for direct consumption as small, hard fruits or seeds including cereal grains, pseudo cereals, oilseeds, and other plants used in the same fashion. Examples of food grains include barley, dent- or flint-corn, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, wheat, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, and oilseeds such as cotton seed, flax seed, rapeseed, soybean, and sunflower seed.
"Vegetable" means the edible part of an herbaceous plant such as cabbage or potato or fleshy fruiting body of a fungus such as white button or shiitake grown for an edible part such that vegetable means the harvestable or harvested part of any plant or fungus whose fruit, fleshy fruiting bodies, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food and includes mushrooms, sprouts, and herbs such as basil or cilantro.
(2) The covered farm discloses in documents accompanying the covered produce, that in accordance with the practice of the trade, the food is "not processed to adequately reduce the presence of microorganisms of public health significance";
(3) The covered farm complies with the written assurance requirements of title 21 C.F.R. section 112.2(b)(3);
(4) The covered farm complies with the documentation requirements of title 21 C.F.R. section 112.2(b)(4);
(5) The requirements of title 21 C.F.R. part 112 subpart A (general provisions) and title 21 C.F.R. part 112 subpart Q (compliance and enforcement) apply to the covered produce; and
(6) An entity that provides a written assurance under title 21 C.F.R. section 112.2(b)(3) acts consistently with the assurance and documents its actions taken to satisfy the written assurance.
(b) A covered farm shall comply with all applicable requirements of this part, rules adopted pursuant to section 145-I, and title 21 C.F.R part 112 when conducting a covered activity on covered produce. A farm is not subject to this part if it satisfies the requirements in title 21 C.F.R. section 112.5 and the United States Food and Drug Administration has not withdrawn the farm's exemption in accordance with the requirements of title 21 C.F.R. part 112 subpart R.
If a farm is eligible for a qualified exemption in accordance with title 21 C.F.R. section 112.5, the farm shall be subject to the requirements of title 21 C.F.R. part 112 subparts A, O, Q, and R. If a farm is eligible for a qualified exemption in accordance with title 21 C.F.R. section 112.5, the farm shall be subject to the modified requirements established in title 21 C.F.R. section 112.6(b).
(d) No covered farm or farm eligible for a qualified exemption in accordance with title 21 C.F.R. section 112.5 shall violate any provision of this part, rules adopted pursuant to section 145-I, or title 21 C.F.R. part 112.
§145-C Chairperson to have access to certain farms. The department shall have access only at reasonable hours to any covered farm or any farm eligible for a qualified exemption in accordance with title 21 C.F.R. section 112.5 for the purposes of:
§145-E Proceeding for condemnation or destruction of covered produce. If unable to secure the written agreement to the condemnation or destruction as required by section 145‑D(b)(1), the department shall make complaint before a district judge in whose circuit the covered produce was seized. The district judge shall issue a summons to the person from whom the covered produce was seized, directing the person to appear before the circuit court within twelve days from the date of issuing the summons and show cause as to why the covered produce should not be condemned or destroyed. If the person from whom the covered produce was seized cannot be found, then the summons shall be served upon the person then in possession of the covered produce. The summons shall be served at least six days before the time of appearance mentioned therein. If the person from whom the covered produce was seized cannot be found, and no one can be found in possession of the covered produce, and the defendant does not appear on the return day, then an appropriate court shall proceed in the case in the same manner as where a writ of attachment is returned not personally served upon any of the defendants and none of the defendants appears upon the return day.
§145-F Judgment; appeal; proceeds. (a) Unless otherwise shown or if the covered produce to be condemned or destroyed pursuant to section 145-D is found to be in violation of any provision of this part or rules adopted pursuant to section 145‑I, it shall be the duty of the district court to render judgment that the covered produce be forfeited to the State and that the goods be destroyed or sold by the department for any purpose other than to be used for food. Either party aggrieved by the district court may appeal to the intermediate appellate court.
§145-G Impeding the department prohibited. No person shall impede, obstruct, hinder, or otherwise prevent or attempt to prevent the department, an inspector, or any other person in the performance of duty in connection with this part.
§145-H Civil penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this part or rule adopted pursuant to section 145‑I shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per violation. In determining the amount of any civil penalty, the board of agriculture shall give due consideration to:
The penalty shall be collected by the department, and the proceeds shall be deposited into the agricultural development and food security special fund established pursuant to section 141-10.
(2) This Act shall expire if the federal government declines to award funds to the State to implement the provisions of federal law embodied in this Act or the federal funds awarded are exhausted, whichever is later.
Enacts produce safety rules in accordance with the federal Food and Drug Administration Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption. (CD1)