I hope that USDA keeps an open mind about finding a reasonable method to, in good faith, implement country of origin labeling.
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Senator Johnson discusses the implementation of country of origin labeling.
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And that self-verification is indeed what we do in many other labeling circumstances, whether it is school lunch programs and all kinds of other things, Black Angus, you name it.
Would it not make sense to maintain the prohibition on Canadian livestock and meat exports into the United States until the United States can be comfortable that they have eliminated their backlog and that their inspection regime is…
The country of origin labeling law gave USDA discretion to create an audit verification system, but not a mandatory system.
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