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On the recordMarch 22, 2023
There are two routes to doing this. One is kind of a voluntary effort through the Xerces Society, but the other is for us to have a regulation that says you can label these plants pollinators safe if they have been raised in this manner.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley discusses the need for regulations on labeling pollinator-friendly plants.

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