Pa. House Advance Bill Committee requiring warnings regarding food allergies

AND Pennsylvania house committee A bill was promoted that would require restaurants and other facilities to the coating against the dangers of food allergies.

According to Co -consisting noteOver 33 million Americans have food allergies, which leads to 200 deaths a year. Almost half of the fatal reactions of food allergies in 13 years show that it was caused by food from restaurants or other gastronomic facilities.

House Bill 77sponsored by state representatives. Arvind Venkat (D-Allegheny) and Natalie Mihalek (R-Allegheny), aims to protect people with food allergies in Pennsylvania.

“The Act requires that food outlets and food resale have posters in their delivery areas about the dangers associated with food allergies, as well as warnings about their menu or other printed materials so that people can provide this information as part of the retail of food for food – he said in Tuesday Venkat.

VenkatThe doctor described food allergies as an epidemic in society and said that he treated more than his truthful participation in these patients. He mentioned it A family from his district He had a child who died after accidental exposure to an allergen through cross pollution from the restaurant.

“This is a simple change, but it can have a big impact,” said Mihalek. “And like many other problems, there is a kind of eight balls.”

Texas, Rhode Island and Massachusetts belong to the countries that have already introduced similar regulations, according to a sponsorship note. The draft law passed the house during the previous session in March 148-53 VotingBut He did not advance in state senate.

“This happens in many other states in which we simply demand from these servers and managers in restaurants to make them slightly more educated, slightly more aware and slightly more communicative with their patrons in their facilities,” said Mihalek.

. The legislation was approved by House Agriculture and Rural Committee in voting 20-6 On Tuesday, with each democrat voting to support the regulations, while the Republicans were divided 6-6.

A representative of the state Stephanie Borowicz (R-Clinton), who voted against legislation, said that she cares about people with food allergies, but added that many restaurants already provide these materials and are concerned about the involvement of the Department of Agriculture.

“One day I was in the subway. They already have it on the display. You can [use]… QR code and get information about allergies – said Borowicz.

“The last thing I want to do is to make a restaurant to the AG Department, the necessary use, and then turn it on, make sure it is right, make sure that they will accept them, and then turn back,” she added. “This is just the next level of the government with which restaurants are dealing with.”

The representative of the state Joe Hamm (R-Lycing) also voted against legislation. He agreed that this was a topic that should be taken seriously, but said that the owners of diminutive businesses were “attacked” with regulations and bureaucracy.

Hamm also worried that the bill could open diminutive companies to court disputes if there were any errors from posters. Venkat replied that legislation protects diminutive business owners from court proceedings, provided that they would proceed in accordance with the protocol of listing the menu reservations, educational posters and training related to food safety.

The committee was also promoted legislation This would allow anyone who works legally in the US, to become a “certified poultry technician” after completing Department of Agriculture Department. According to the state representative. Johanna Cepeda-FreetizDemocrat from Berks, he moved out of the Committee on Voting 20-6, and all Democrats voted in affirmative and Republicans evenly divided 6-6.

Cepeda-Freetiz said that the state poultry industry “required much more certified poultry technicians than ever before, because they are working on protecting their herds from highly pathogenic bird flu.”

She added that gigantic poultry companies marked several cases in which employees were unable to obtain a license for poultry technicians because they are not citizens.

Legislation adopted in the previous session in July 166-36 VotingBut he was not approved by the State Senate.

For Co -consisting noteCertified poultry technicians who Collect poultry samples for testing“The key to preventing the spread” of flu on a high path and that “many people working in Persylvania poultry operations are not US citizens”, despite legal work on farms in the United States.

Borowicz said that it was not liked, that the regulations would allow hazardous certification and had concerns about the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to issue quarantine orders on bird flu.

She argued with a representative of Eddie Day Pashinski (D-Kuserne), chairman of the Agricultural and WSI committee that the act is superior to the government, attracting in parallel to how the state reacted to Coronavirus pandemic.

“We are on the abyss of something that could be a national sudden accident,” said Pashinski, to which Borowicz answered “well, just like Covid.”

Pashinski said that the Secretary of Agriculture in Pennsylvania Russell Redding is “highly qualified and showed his ability to manage the AG industry in Pennsylvania.”

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