COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING (COOL) INFORMATION
- Affirmation of final rule. Read the Federal Register entry of March 20, 2009.
- USDA
- Schedule of listening/information sessions
- Testimony by William T. Hawks, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, USDA, to the Senate Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Marketing, Inspection and Promotion
- USDA suggested records for pork producers (pdf)
- Canada, Trade Policy Monitoring: The Impact of Country-of-Origin Labeling in Canada, 2003 (pdf)
- House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture approves provision to prevent the Secretary of Ag from spending any money in COOL in FY06. Read an article from the Rapid City, SD Journal.
- U.S. House agriculture committee approved voluntary country of origin labeling on July 22. Next stop: the full House floor. Read a statement on the U.S. ag committee Web site about the vote by ag committee chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia.
- Senate delays funding for COOL until 2006 through appropriations bill vote, but Sen. Tom Daschle, D-SD, said COOL supporters will work to overturn the delay. The vote was 65-28 with 7 not voting. Iowa senators Grassley and Harkin both voted for the measure which adopted a conference report on the FY04 appropriations for agriculture and other agencies.
- U.S. House wants to delay COOL until Sept. 2006, but U.S. Senate won’t vote until January 2004. Read an article on the Pork Magazine Web site.
- Congressional negotiators have cleared the way for what appears to be a two-year delay in implementation of Country of Origin Labeling. This delay is part of an omnibus spending bill, necessary to keep Congress in operation.
- General Accounting Office report (GAO Report Number 03-780, August 2003) on USDA estimates of implementation (pdf)
- Survey (GAO-03-781SP) upon which GAO Report 03-780 was based
- Conference Report from FSIS (January 2000) accompanying the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, on Mandatory COOL
Commodity and other organizations
- Analysis of COOL for NPPC (pdf) by Dermot Hayes
- Western Organization of Resource Councils COOL site
- Food Industry Trade Coalition, implementation for affected entities
- IPIC satellite program (6/10/03) featured on Iowa Public Television's Market to Market Show
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