Virginia House of Delegates member Robert Bell (R-Charlottesville) has proposed new legislation that would exclude all homes and small farms with less than 10 employees from all state food safety laws. Virginia House Bill 135 would require foods produced by exempted homes or farms to label their foods as products produced without state inspection.
According to an article on Food Safety News, "legislative experts say in recent years state lawmakers have made it easier to make and sell so-called cottage foods from home kitchens in as many as 40 states.” The article goes on to explain that the movement to deregulate the production of “Cottage Foods” has grown over the past decade.
This post prepared by William Mitchell College of Law student John Carbone.
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