A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: Includes AMS, FWS

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE

Notice the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is soliciting comments on its proposal to revise the U.S. Standards for Grades of Frozen Corn on the Cob (July 27, 1970). Info here.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Proposed rule to reclassify the plant Eugenia woodburyana (no common name) from an endangered species to a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), due to improvements in the species’ status since the original listing in 1994. Info here.

LEGISLATIVE: Includes California

CALIFORNIA

SB 1301 requires the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Agency to collaborate to create a Tijuana River Valley Watershed Action Plan and will be reviewed and updated on a 3-year cycle. Info here.