Current Issues in Agricultural Law

This section highlights developing issues in food and agricultural law. Many of these topics have been the subject of articles in the Agricultural Law Brief. Additional links and resources for some of these topics are available on the Resource Areas section of this website.

Animal Antibiotics	Food Safety
Animal Disease Traceability Program (ADTP)	Global Food Security
Animal Welfare	Marcellus Shale Resource Area
Biofuels	Odor Management
Chesapeake Bay	Pennsylvania Dog Law
Climate Change	Raw Milk
Country of Origin Labeling	Urban Chickens
Downer Cows / Bovine Spongiform  Encephalopathy (BSE)	WTO / Doha Round Trade Talks
Farm Bill

Animal Antibiotics

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Judicious Use of Antimicrobials
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: FDA Takes Steps to Protect Public Health (April 11, 2012)
• National Pork Board (Pork Check-Off): Antibiotic Use in Pork Production
• The Pew Charitable Trusts: Human Health and Industrial Farming

Animal Disease Traceability Program (ADTP)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal Disease Traceability
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: How ADTP Will Work (March 26, 2012)

Animal Welfare

• National Agriculture Law Center: Animal Welfare Reading Room
• National Agricultural Library: Farm Animals
• United Nations: Farm Animal Welfare
• Animal Welfare Council
• Animal Agriculture Alliance
• UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Extension: Animal Welfare

Biofuels

• National Agricultural Law Center: Biofuels Statutes
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Biofuels Basics
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Bioenergy and Biofuels
• Energy Justice Network: Transportation and Heating Fuels
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Bioenergy

Chesapeake Bay

• Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center: Chesapeake Bay Resource Area

Climate Change

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Agriculture and Food Supply Impacts & Adaptation
• United States Department of Agriculture: Climate Change Program Office
• World Bank: Agriculture and Climate Change
• National Agricultural Law Center: Climate Change Reading Room
• Meridian Institute: Agriculture and Climate Change
• European Commission: Agriculture and Climate Change
• Climate and Farming.org: Climate Change and Northeast Agriculture

Country of Origin Labeling

• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Marketing Service
• National Agricultural Law Center: Country of Origin Labeling Reading Room
• Produce Marketing Association: Country of Origin Labeling Information and Resources
• Agriculture Marketing Resource Center: Country of Origin Labeling Resource Center

Downer Cows / Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture: BSE/Mad Cow Disease Information
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service: BSE Guidance Materials and Resources
• Library of Congress Science Reference Services: Links to BSE/Mad Cow Information
• Library of Congress Science Reference Services: BSE/Mad Cow Disease Internet Resources

Farm Bill

• U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture: Farm Bill
  
• U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry: Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Farm Bill 2008
• National Agricultural Law Center: United States Farm Bills

Food Safety

• Food and Drug Administration: The New FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Food Safety at CDC
• Partnership for Food Safety Education: Keeping Food Safe From Bacteria
• Home Food Safety: Reducing Your Risk
• U.S. National Library of Medicine: Food Safety Information

Global Food Security

• U.S. Department of State: Office of Global Food Security
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Global Food Security Briefing Room
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: High Level Conference on Food Security
• United Nations: The Secretary General's High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
• World Bank: Global Food Crisis
• Global Food Security

Marcellus Shale Resource Area

• Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center: Marcellus Shale Resource Area

Odor Management

• 25 Pa. Code Ch. 83: PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 08-2143
• Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture: Pennsylvania Odor Management Program
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Air Quality Concerns in Pennsylvania
• Socially Responsible Agriculture Project: Air Pollution & Odor

Pennsylvania Dog Law

• Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center: Pennsylvania Dog Law Resource Area

Raw Milk

• Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture: Milk Sanitation Program
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC Features — Raw (Unpasteurized) Milk
• FoodSafety.gov: Milk, Cheese, and Dairy Products
• Raw Milk Facts: A Raw Milk Information Clearinghouse
• Weston Price Foundation: A Campaign for Real (Raw) Milk
• Harvard Law Society: Raw Milk Debate (February 16, 2012)

Urban Chickens

• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences: Department of Poultry Sciences
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Biosecurity for Birds Campaign
• Chickens In The Yard: Legal Stuff
• Urban Chickens: Backyard Chicken Keeping

WTO / Doha Round Trade Talks

• World Trade Organization (WTO): The Doha Round Resource Information
• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: WTO Doha Negotiations
• European Commission: Trade and The Doha Round
• International Food Policy Research Institute: Doha Round Policy Considerations
• The Guardian: Business and The Doha Trade Talks

 

Links current as of June 2012