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ID H0700
Bill
Status
3/29/2012
Primary Sponsor
Ways and Means Committee
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AI Summary
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Creates the Idaho Food Freedom Act allowing farm producers and processors to sell products directly to informed end-consumers without state licensing, certification, or inspection when there is only one transaction for home consumption or traditional community social events.
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Exempts farm products sold at roadside stands, farms, ranches, or home-based sales facilities directly to informed end-consumers from various state agricultural regulations, including onion grading standards and potato commission requirements.
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Requires persons preparing food at roadside stands or farm-based sales facilities to hold a food protection manager certificate and mandates labeling of processed foods for long-term storage with producer name, ingredients, production date, and contact information.
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Prohibits unlicensed homemade or directly-sold food from being used in commercial food establishments, except for raw, unprocessed fruits and vegetables.
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Revises definitions of "producer," "grower," and "hobbyist beekeeper" across multiple agricultural commodity chapters to exclude those selling only to informed end-consumers at roadside stands, farms, ranches, or home-based facilities.
Legislative Description
Adds to and amends existing law relating to food to provide for the Idaho Food Freedom Act, to provide for exemption from licensing, certification and inspection for certain transactions, to provide requirements relating to transactions; to prohibit certain sales or use in commercial food establishments, to require food protection manager certificates and to provide for labeling; to provide an exemption from specified provisions of law relating to onions for the sale of certain farm products; to provide that the Idaho Potato Commission may provide alternate agreements for persons who sell potatoes only to informed end-consumers for private use or who sell at farmers markets; and to revise various definitions of growers and producers.
FOOD FREEDOM ACT
Last Action
to W/M
3/29/2012