Food Safety Modernization Act

PCC signed a joint letter to U.S. Senators re: the Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, urging amendments to improve food safety without unnecessarily handicapping small-scale food producers.

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Phase out toxic fumigants

Letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, urging it not to re-register toxic fumigant pesticides posing serious health risks to farmworkers.

Support for Pesticide Regulation Reform

PCC endorsed the Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act of 2020 (PACTPA), which would provide much needed improvements to existing pesticide laws and regulations to better protect people and the environment.

Hydroponics and Bisphenol-A (BPA) in packaging

Supporting NOSB’s call to prohibit hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics from organic certification; and to encourage prohibiting hormone disruptors and other toxicants from organic food packaging.