Food Processing and Licensing Connecticut An Act Concerning Minor Revisions to the Department of Agricultural Statutes This act requires each intrastate retail raw milk dealer with 10 or fewer milking-aged animals to (1) keep records about drugs used on the animals and (2) have them available for inspection by the Department of Agriculture (DOAg) commissioner. The act requires intrastate retail raw milk dealers with 10 or more milking-aged animals and retail raw milk producers to test each tank truck load of milk or milk products for drug residue. It also eliminates the requirement that hard cheese be clearly marked with a last sale date. PA 06-19 Date effective: 10/1/2006 An Act Concerning the Revision and Modernization of Milk Regulation Statutes and the Licensing of Poultry Dealers This act (1) makes various changes to the regulation of raw milk, milk and milk products, and the Milk Regulation Board; (2) replaces the licensing procedure for, and regulation of, poultry dealers; and (3) eliminates a requirement that the Agriculture Commissioner adopt regulations governing the restraint or disposal of dogs that have bitten a person.
PA 05-175 Date effective: 7/1/2005 An Act Concerning the Certification of Organically Grown Foods This bill requires the state's Agriculture Department to certify organically grown foods and simultaneously removes this responsibility from the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut. It does not affect other groups recognized by the U. S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Standards Board to certify organic food.
PA 02-51 Date effective: 10/1/2002 An Act Concerning Animal Disease Control This bill authorizes the agriculture commissioner to control, as well as eradicate animal diseases when cooperating with any national disease control plan adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services (hereafter USDA). It also expands this authority. By law, the commissioner has the authority to cooperate with a USDA national system for eradicating bovine tuberculosis or any infectious or contagious disease of any bovine animal, and has the same authority for the eradication of avian (bird) diseases. The bill expands the commissioner's areas of cooperation to include all livestock and adds all contagious and infectious diseases to the scope of these plans. PA 02-35 Date effective: 7/1/2002 Maryland Poultry License Requiring specified live poultry markets, poultry production facilities, and poultry dealers to obtain an annual license; requiring specified persons who keep poultry to register with the Secretary of Agriculture; requiring the Secretary to maintain records in a specified manner; authorizing the disclosure of identifying information if the Secretary, after consulting with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, determines that disclosure is necessary. Chaptered 390, Statutes of 2004 Date effective: 2004 New Hampshire An Act Establishing a Homestead Food License for Residential, Non-Commercial Kitchens This bill requires out-of-state residential non-commercial kitchens to register with the Department of Health and Human services to sell food produced. It also creates a homestead food license for residential, non-commercial kitchens. HB 1683 Date effective: 1/1/2007 Vermont Livestock Dealers, Auctions and Sales Rings - Duties of Dealers Duty of livestock dealer to maintain, subject to inspection by the secretary of agriculture, food and markets or his or her agent, a proper record in which all livestock purchased, repossessed, sold or loaned are to be listed, giving breed, date purchased, repossessed, sold or loaned and complete names and addresses from whom obtained and to whom delivered. Such record shall also show the individual identification of each livestock by a method prescribed for each species by rule by the secretary 6 V.S.A. § 768 (2004) Date effective: 2004 Preparation of Livestock and Poultry Products: Power of the Secretary Power of Secretary to by rules require the identification of livestock and poultry for inspection purposes and the marking and labeling of livestock products or poultry products or their containers, or both, as "Vermont Inspected and Passed" if the products are not found upon inspection to be adulterated and "Vermont Inspected and Condemned" if they are found upon inspection to be adulterated, and the destruction for food purposes of all the condemned products under the supervision of an inspector. Vermont Statutes; Title 6: Agriculture; Chapter 204: Preparation of Livestock and Poultry Products; Section 3304 Date effective: 5/27/2003 West Virginia Records of Transaction for Licensed Livestock Dealers Every licensed livestock dealer shall make and retain for at least two years written livestock sales records in the form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, including, but not limited to, records indicating the identification numbers or letters, sex, brand and approximate weight of all livestock bought, sold, received, exchanged or otherwise transferred, and the names and addresses of all owners, sellers, consignors or buyers with whom he has in any manner exchanged livestock, with the date of such exchanges. W. Va. Code § 19-10B-5 (2004) Date effective: 2004 National Animal Identification System Relates to the National Animal Identification System of the Department of Agriculture; requires state participation; exempts data from disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act; permits collection of farm premises and animal identification data. S.B. 235 (Act No. 15) Date effective: 2/18/2005 | 
