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Creating Food Rules for Farmer's Markets
(IRN)-It's time to hit the farmers' markets for some good, fresh fruits, vegetables, and treats. And the Illinois Senate has passed a bill to let some producers take a shortcut.

The idea is to let more people, specifically, small fry, participate in the markets. Sponsoring State Senator Dave Koehler (D-Peoria) says the producers would have to meet certain conditions: "that the owners have a food sanitary license, that they label whatever they're making, the jelly, the pie, the bread, correctly, and that they also put on it that this is a homemade product; it's not subject to local or state inspection."

The difference between hazardous and non-hazardous items, Koehler says, is generally in whether they must be refrigerated, a cream pie versus an apple pie, for example.

SB 840 has passed the Senate, 42-6-5.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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