Funding for agriculture and food safety programs for fiscal year 2015 moved forward this week after both the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees approved their respective proposals by voice vote. The House discretionary spending totals $20.9 billion; the Senate would allocate $20.6 billion.
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The House Small Business Committee is joining the growing chorus of groups calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw its proposed Clean Water Act rule defining “waters of the United States,” arguing that the measure would be bad for small business, according to a Politico report.
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The popular “Supermarket and Foodservice Roundtable” will once again be part of the program during the National Chicken Council’s Chicken Marketing Seminar to be held July 20-22 at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia, approximately 75 miles east of the Atlanta airport.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending the comment period 60 days on its proposed rule “Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food,” according to its May 20th Constituent Update. The comment period was scheduled to end May 31, 2014.
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