H.C.R. No. 94 Summary

• Requests the Department of Health to establish a task force to review Hawaii's food security and food safety practices, with focus on compliance with the federal Food Safety Modernization Act for imported foods including meat, produce, and dairy products.

• Task force directed to review and recommend actions ensuring proper sourcing, transportation, storage, and distribution of food imports with strict temperature and handling controls from source to point of sale.

• Task force directed to develop recommendations preventing misleading labeling or advertising of imported foods that falsely represent them as Hawaiian-origin or locally fresh products.

• Task force composition includes the Health Director, two Senate members, chairs of Agriculture and Health committees, one University of Hawaii professor from College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, and two private Hawaii-owned food distribution business owners.

• Task force required to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2021 Regular Session convening, with the task force dissolving on June 30, 2021.