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DEL.ICIO.USSenator introduces food safety bill in response to peanut butter salmonella outbreak
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sen. John Bulloch (R-Ochlocknee) introduced legislation today that would require food manufacturers to perform “regular testing” to ensure food safety. The bill is in response to the salmonella outbreak caused by products from Peanut Corp. of America in Blakely, Ga., which is in Bulloch’s district.
The bill says the testing should detect the presence of “poisonous or deleterious substances or other contaminants.”
Senate Bill 80 also requires a company to report to the Georgia department of agriculture any tests that show contamination within one business day. The bill gives the department of agriculture the right to inspect test result records held by a company.
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