[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3540

    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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2015

  Mr. Cardenas (for himself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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.''.
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