United Fresh Files Comments with USDA on Country of Origin Regulations
August 24, 2007
United Fresh filed comments this week urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to incorporate the country of origin labeling policies agreed to in the House Farm Bill into the Department's new regulations. "We know this is awkward for USDA because the new agreements in the House have not yet passed the Senate, nor been signed into law by the President," said United President Tom Stenzel. "Yet, these changes, which reduce the burden of new regulations, are certainly likely to become law, and it wouldn't make sense for USDA to write regulations simply based on the old 2002 law. We're going to encourage Congress to give USDA a little more time in writing these regs, rather than get caught in a bureaucratic Catch 22, feeling that they have to complete a regulation based on a law that will be changing in just a few months." For more information, contact Autumn Veazey, director of legislative affairs, associate counsel.
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