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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 29, 2013 9:59:43 GMT -5
Leaps on to soap box:
I was so excited when Calif recently passed this bill. Now I'm just P.O.ed. Why whenever anything good is going to happen does every one want to get their hands in the till?
So, under the CIS I could have sold bread, jam and pickles to my CSA as well as offering them as "free gifts".
Here's the fine print: 1. Everything has to be labeled (sure okay, I can do that). 2. Your well has to be tested 4 x a year ($260). 3. Your septic tank has to be inspected ($600). 4. Take a class ($65.) 5. County Ag inspection ($400 + who knows how much).
Okay, so by my reckoning, I've already spent a $1000 to gain maybe $1500. Plus, I have to jump these hoops every year. Was it too much to ask that they just went with 1 & 4?
I guess Maria, who sells tamales at the train station will not be getting this certificate either.
Oh the unmitigated greed of our county government. I want to know when take a bureaucrat to lunch week is...I want to roast them and serve them with sauce.
ARghh.
Stumbles down from soapbox.
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Post by steev on Mar 29, 2013 10:30:18 GMT -5
Everyone wants to get their hands in the till because that's where the money is.
You just need to get big enough to hire a lobby shop to get you a tax break.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 29, 2013 16:00:57 GMT -5
Yeah, but that sort of takes the "Cottage" out of Cottage Industry. By the way, you can't use backyard produce without getting it "Certified" because we all know that Certified or Store Bought Produce is way better and safer than anything I grow on my farm Not to mention more nutrient dense, humanely farmed, and fresher. I need an emoticon for throws hands up in the air and stalks away in disgust.
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Post by logrus9 on Mar 29, 2013 22:25:33 GMT -5
This is close.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 30, 2013 9:12:26 GMT -5
dayum holly! did you see this... White House weakened food safety ruleswww.foodpolitics.com/2013/03/white-house-weakened-food-safety-rules/I subscribe to Food Chemical News, at great expense but for good reason. On Friday, I received this alert addressed to Dear Subscriber: Food Chemical News has discovered a stunning set of documents, made available by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of a transparency initiative, that prove FDA was forced by the White House Office of Management and Budget to remove certain elements from the draft of its FDA Food Safety Modernization Act preventive controls proposal. It had long been speculated among FDA watchers that the agency intended to include requirements for product testing, maintaining supplier verification programs and tracking consumer complaints in its FSMA proposal, published in the Federal Register Jan. 16, but the eight documents we found this week, while searching for other information, confirm it.
Food Safety News picked up the story.
Food Chemical News is reporting that documents released on regulations.gov on Feb. 28 reveal cuts made by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the implementing regulatory package for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).Those apparent cuts include striking out requirements for food companies to test for microbial contamination of environments and finished food products, as well as rules for companies to maintain supplier verification programs and track consumer complaints.
We encourage readers to review the documents here and comment on anything of interest in our comment section.
The documents say that the White House deleted:
Requirements for environmental monitoring for pathogens.
Requirements for finished product testing for pathogens.
An assumption that if environmental monitoring finds pathogens on food-contact, the pathogens are also in the food.
Requirements for a supplier approval and verification program.
A requirement that companies review consumer complaints about safety.
FDA authority to copy company records.
The White House also:
Added a year to the length of time companies and farms of all sizes have to comply with the law.
Why? Undoubtedly election-year politics. The election is over.
The FDA needs to do its job.
Let’s get these items reinserted.
The safety of Americans is at stake here.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 30, 2013 11:45:23 GMT -5
Didn't see it. But I have now.
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