U.S. Senate Urges Agriculture Department to Proceed With Country-of-Origin Labeling
On November 6, 2003, the U.S. Senate voted 58-36 to oppose efforts by the House of Representatives to exempt imported meat products from a law requiring that foods start carrying country-of-origin labels by September 2004.
The House, in its version of the agriculture spending bill, voted 208-193 in July to prevent the Agriculture Department from proceeding with rulemaking for the meat labeling law, approved by Congress as part of a 2002 farm bill.
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