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Health Department urges caution on H.401, recommends narrower cottage-food exemptions
Summary
The Department of Health told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that while it supports the goals of H.401, it recommends limiting home-kitchen exemptions to non–potentially-hazardous foods, adding registration and training, and aligning Vermont with other states to protect public health.
The Department of Health told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee it supports the goals of H.401 but warned that the bill, as written, could increase public-health risk by broadening licensing exemptions for foods produced in home kitchens.
Interim Commissioner Julia Rell and Liz Wursing, director of the Food and Lodging Program, testified that food-safety science distinguishes potentially hazardous foods from non–potentially-hazardous foods and that improperly canned, preserved or fermented products can cause serious illnesses including salmonella, listeriosis and…
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