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House and Senate Continue to Work on Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations
July 24, 2023 The appropriation bills for Fiscal Year 2024 are being finalized, with the House Appropriations Committee passing the FY 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bi...
Iowa and South Carolina Redesign Their Public Health Agencies
May 19, 2023 No one needs to point out that the nation’s public health system does not always function well, and the same can be said for environmental health. States are learning that cutting budgets and resources lead to subpar serv...
Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Bill
May 18, 2023The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies marked up the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill on May 18, 2023. The committee approved a party line ...
We Advocate for Support of FDA Food Safety Efforts
May 11, 2023 We met with congressional appropriators last month to discuss the importance of Food and Drug Administration(FDA) budgets for food safety to state, local, tribal, and territorial environmental health agencies. Our...
The Food Freedom Movement: Laws in Maine, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming
Date posted: Monday, August 17, 2020Blog poster: Doug Farquhar, JDCottage food laws permit the sale of small production foods without the burdens of fully licensed retail foods. Food freedom laws seek to eliminate those minimal restrictions and ...
State Food Safety Legislation Enacted in August 2020
Date posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2020Blog poster: Doug Farquhar, JDThe ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (NEHA) identified 223 bills that were introduced in 30 states and Washington, DC, related to food, food safety, retail food, and...
Laws to Exempt Retail Foods From State Oversight Are on the Rise
Date posted: Thursday, March 4, 2021Blog poster: Doug Farquhar, JDNEHA has been able to identify 41 bills in 24 states in the 2021–2022 state legislative session that relate to cottage foods (i.e., bills the relax or eliminate food safety requir...
Enacted State Food Legislation
Date posted: Thursday, September 23, 2021Blog poster: Doug Farquhar, JDState legislatures introduced several hundred bills related to food during the 2021 legislative sessions. Almost every state introduced legislation regarding food. From food ...
Congressperson Rob Wittman Visits Harris Teeter Store
April 25, 2022NEHA organized a site visit for Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA) at a local Harris Teeter grocery store in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Friday, April 22.Representative Wittman, cochair of the Congressional Public Health Caucus, work...
Second Annual World Food Day
Date posted: Monday, June 29, 2020Blog poster: Doug Farquhar, JDIn the midst of COVID-19, enforcing social distancing, and attempts to reopen the economy, we neglected to celebrate June 7, 2020, as the 2nd Annual World Food Day, sponsored by the...