H.R. 4400 · 115th Congress
Farm to Table Safety Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Tony Cárdenas
- Introduced
- 2017-11-15
- Latest action
- 2017-12-05 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Summary
Farm to Table Safety Act
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.