CALIFORNIA: State regulation of leafy greens stalled - (Associated Press)
November 19, 2007 – 6:55 pmSACRAMENTO California State Sen. Dean Florez is, according to this story, hoping a little legislative detour will help build momentum for his stalled bills seeking to regulate the lettuce and spinach industry.
The story explains the three measures were introduced in February after officials linked leafy green vegetables from the Salinas Valley to E. coli outbreaks last year that killed at least three people and sickened about 300 nationwide.
The bills would have prohibited growers from using certain practices that could result in contaminated produce, such as placing portable toilets in the fields or using uncomposted or untreated manure as fertilizer.
The bills passed the Senate but stalled in the Assembly in June following an acrimonious hearing in the Assembly Agriculture Committee. The committee rejected one of the measures, 5-2, and did not vote on the other two.
Florez was cited as saying he is planning to bring the bills back next year […]
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