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Farm to Table Safety Act

H.R. 3540 · 114th Congress · Sep 17, 2015 · Lineage

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.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Farm to Table Safety Act”.

Sec. 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.”