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December 2011
December 2011 - PaPlants has recently received a makeover. The screens are clearer and more user-friendly. On-line license renewals and credit-card payments are now available for the following programs: Plant Merchant, Feed, Fertilizer, Lime, Seed Dealer, Apiary and Soil and Plant Amendments. Additionally, you can now report your fertilizer, feed and lime tonnage on-line, and pay for it by credit card. Visit www.PaPlants.state.pa.us/Reg to access online renewals and reporting or view the press release for additional information on updates.
 
December 2010
December 2010 - The Poultry Handling and Transportation Quality Assurance (PHTQA) web site is officially live! PHTQA is a certification program for the training of poultry transportation and catch crews in methods of biosecurity, disease recognition, emergency planning and the safe and humane handling of birds before, during and after transport. The certification involves transportation and handling of several species including day-old poultry, breeders, pullets, spent fowl, broilers and turkeys. A team of scientists from Penn State University, representatives from USDA and industry specialists will conduct the training and certification. PHTQA is the first third party certification of this type to cover several poultry species. Multiple training sessions will be held in 2011. Dates are yet to be determined at this time. Please check the website (www.poultryhandling.org) as updates will be posted. (Note: The transportation and handling industries of Pennsylvania will be offered the first opportunities for training.) Congratulations to members of academia, industry and PennAg who were involved in the development of this worthwhile program!

December 21, 2010 - The most sweeping changes in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of American food safety in more than 70 years were enacted by Congress on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. The landmark Food Safety and Modernization Act is now poised to become law, pending President Obama's signature. The bill represents the first major overhaul of the American food safety systems since 1938, and will allow the FDA to order mandatory recalls in the event of tainted or contaminated food, a power the agency has never possessed. READ MORE...
 
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