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FARMERS TO FACE FINES OR PRISON SENTENCES FOR SELLING FOOD DIRECTLY TO CUSTOMERS
David Gumpert
March 3, 2015
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly.
For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.
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