“Had CDFA met its statutory deadline there would have been regulatory certainty and industry would have had 28 months to prepare for Prop 12. But as I read this statement, the comment period regarding the proposed regulations with their many flaws is still open and publication of final regulations likely remains months away,” said Dopp.
“Those who contend the industry has had enough time to comply with Prop 12 either do not understand or ignore, perhaps willfully, the complexity of the pork supply chain and the segregation and other costs Prop 12 will impose on packer/processors and other players in that chain.”
In June, the Meat Institute submitted 12 pages of comments, found here that said the rules, if finalized, would create a bureaucratic labyrinth of regulatory provisions:
· requiring an almost unworkable annual certification of veal and breeding pig (sow) facilities;
· creating an overly complex accreditation process for entities allowed to certify those facilities;
· imposing detailed recordkeeping requirements on producers and throughout the supply chain;
· imposing problematic labeling provisions; and
· granting legally questionable enforcement authority.
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