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Committee weighs expanded sales of rabbit meat to farm stands and farmers markets; public-health safeguards required
Summary
House Bill 779 would allow producers to sell rabbit meat directly from farms, farm stands and farmers markets; Department of Health and Human Services said the bill was amended to add training and registration requirements and that no foodborne-illness outbreaks have been reported under the existing restaurant sales program.
Senators considered House Bill 779, which would expand an existing program that allows rabbit meat to be sold to restaurants so that producers can sell up to specified quantities of rabbit meat directly from their farms, at farm stands and at farmers markets.
Representative Peter Bixby, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure extends an earlier 2014 restaurant-sales program. The amended language requires producers to complete training provided by Cooperative Extension, register with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Food Protection program and follow labeling…
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