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COOL LAW Is Coming

PORKER

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Last week, the National Farmers Union and 215 other farm groups that support mandatory labeling called for the implementation date to be moved up. But Peterson told the National Farmers Union convention in Orlando last Saturday that he considers the regulations that USDA has written to implement mandatory labeling unworkable, and he wants the agency to rewrite them so that the labeling regime will be effective. But Peterson also said he has told Arkansas-based meat company Tyson, American Meat Institute, which represents big packers, and the Food Marketing Institute, which represents grocery stores, that mandatory labeling "will happen no later than September of 2008." If agribusiness tries to get Congress to repeal mandatory labeling, Peterson told reporters Thursday, supporters will push for a floor vote and it will pass "by 300 votes." +
 

Econ101

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PORKER said:
Last week, the National Farmers Union and 215 other farm groups that support mandatory labeling called for the implementation date to be moved up. But Peterson told the National Farmers Union convention in Orlando last Saturday that he considers the regulations that USDA has written to implement mandatory labeling unworkable, and he wants the agency to rewrite them so that the labeling regime will be effective. But Peterson also said he has told Arkansas-based meat company Tyson, American Meat Institute, which represents big packers, and the Food Marketing Institute, which represents grocery stores, that mandatory labeling "will happen no later than September of 2008." If agribusiness tries to get Congress to repeal mandatory labeling, Peterson told reporters Thursday, supporters will push for a floor vote and it will pass "by 300 votes." +

We will know by those who do not vote for it who the packer lackeys are.
 
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Anonymous

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We will know by those who support this flawed law who the blind followers are.


~SH~
 

PORKER

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Peterson told the National Farmers Union convention in Orlando last Saturday that he considers the regulations that USDA has written to implement mandatory labeling unworkable, and he wants the agency to rewrite them so that the labeling regime will be effective.

Yup, new rules??????????????for poultry meat !!!
 

PORKER

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USDA can immediately implement COOL for beef by:



— Allowing packers to indicate beef has come from imported animals without having to specify each further production step that may have occurred in the United States.;

— Allowing packers to label blended products with a list of the countries of origin that may be contained in the product, rather than a definitive list of each country;

— Allowing retailers to rely on pre-labeled products for origin claims;

— Allowing meat packers to rely on country markings that already are applied to cattle imports in order to determine origin;

— Eliminating unnecessary and duplicative record-keeping requirements regarding chain of custody and separate tracking during the production process to allow packers and retailers to rely on documents they already keep in the ordinary course of business;

— Reducing the record retention requirement from two years to one year; and

— Specifying that producers and retailers do not need to demand affidavits or third party verification audits of suppliers in order to adequately substantiate origin claims.

This will all work if they use ScoringAg records here and for imports.
 

don

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i have seen one report in the last week indicating cool would be linked with an id system for domestic product. is it looking like this will be the case?
 

Mike

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don said:
i have seen one report in the last week indicating cool would be linked with an id system for domestic product. is it looking like this will be the case?

The COOL legislation proposed a few years ago requires some sort of ID/verified paper trail. No way around it. It just dictates that the USDA not specify any ONE PARTICULAR type of system be used.

It would allow the producers/feeders/packers to arrange a system that would suit us all best.

Too bad they put off the inevitable.
 
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