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FSMA: Comment on FDA’s Proposed Food Safety Regulations by November 15 Deadline Action Alert

By admin | October 22, 2013

Food safety regulations proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pose significant problems for sustainable farmers, food producers, and food hubs across the country.
 
Under the proposed regulations, many farmers will be forced to comply with high-cost, industrial-scale regulations, and they will be unable to use traditional, sustainable growing practices. Food hubs and local food businesses will be forced to deal with costly and

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, FSMA, petitions

Speak Up for Pastured Egg Farms Action Alert

By admin | September 23, 2013

Comments Due Today (Sep. 23, 2013)
The FDA is yet again putting burdens on farmers who use healthy, sustainable practices, and justifying them with fear-based assumptions rather than data. The agency’s latest move is a draft guidance document that will make it all but impossible for farmers with 3,000 or more laying hens to keep the birds on pasture.

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, eggs, FDA regulations, poultry

Tell FDA to Treat Small Farmers Fairly Action Alert

By admin | August 5, 2013

FDA is aiming to undermine the Tester-Hagan amendment which exempts small-scale, direct-marketing farms from the most burdensome aspects of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This exemption is essential to the continued vitality of the local foods movement.
 
FDA is proposing rules that would make it very easy for the agency to force even small-scale farmers to comply with the extensive, burdensome

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, FSMA, petitions

Stop New Mexico Senate Bill 286

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. | February 27, 2013

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Bill Attempts to Ban Retail Raw Milk Sales Senator Pat Woods (District 7) expects to present Senate Bill 286 to the Conservation Committee on Thursday afternoon or evening, February 28th. The Senate Conservation Committee is chaired by Senator Peter Wirth (District 25). SB 286, as written, calls for a ban on the sale of retail […]

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts

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