POLICY :: Tracking

Track your favorite issues in California Food & Farming Policy

Food Safety, E. coli, & Leafy Green regulations

• Background and research
• Proposed regulations
• Sample letter to CDFA

Global Warming

• Governor signs into law the Global Warming Solutions Act (Winter 2006)

Farm Labor

• "Simple Solutions", an op-ed on immigration reform (Ag Advocate, Summer 2006, 637 kb)

GMO debate

• Rights of Citizens to Restrict GMOs Upheld: SB 1056 (Florez) Held in Senate Rules (Fall 2006)
• Pre-emption bill passes Assembly Ag Committee with 8-0 vote (July 2006)  
• Bill to pre-empt local control of GMOS is back (Summer 2006)
• The Sonoma County initiative attempts to place a moratorium… (Spring 2006)
• Fight to pre-empt local decisions on GMOs (Summer 2005)
• Farmer liability for GMO drift (Fall 2002)

Farm-to-School legislation

• Farm to School efforts unsettled... (Summer 2006)
• Several legislative efforts to provide more nutritious foods at schools… (Spring 2006)

• Governor vetoes AB 826 (Nava)

  (Fall 2005)

• CAFF sponsors bill to create new Farm-to-School programs

  (Summer 2005)