Plain English Breakdown
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Food and Agriculture: Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program
This bill makes small, nonsubstantive changes to the rules about reporting illegal pesticide levels on farm products.
What This Bill Does
- Keeps the current requirement for monitoring pesticides on produce meant for processing.
- Maintains the rule that officials must check if the program stops public exposure to illegal residues.
- Requires reports to list the county where food with illegal pesticide levels was found, along with the specific commodity and production location.
- Makes nonsubstantive changes to how these reporting details are written in existing law.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Director of Pesticide Regulation
- Producers and processors of agricultural foods
Terms To Know
- Pesticide residue monitoring program
- A system that tests farm products to find leftover chemicals from pest control.
- Nonsubstantive changes
- Small edits like fixing grammar or spelling that do not change the meaning of a law.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not explain exactly what words are being changed in the existing law.
- No new funding is mentioned for this program in the provided text.