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Committee unanimously backs HB 1685 to redefine Homestead Foods and ease artisan-food sales
Summary
The House Environment and Agriculture Committee unanimously recommended HB 1685 for future legislation after the food safety subcommittee and DHHS staff identified statutory and regulatory gaps; members discussed technical fixes to make small-scale sales simpler and enforceable.
The House Environment and Agriculture Committee unanimously recommended HB 1685, a bill to redefine Homestead Foods as artisan foods and create an artisan-food operations exemption, after subcommittee work and presentations from Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) food-safety staff.
The chair summarized the subcommittee’s work, saying DHHS and food producers provided a presentation on current food-safety law and that the subcommittee identified “holes in the law and some…
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