HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Health
SUBCOMMITTEE: Food Safety

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Thursday, August 27, 1998

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Glen Maxey

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The House Subcommittee on Food Safety will meet to take invited and public
testimony relating to the educational and regulatory mechanisms
currently in place to protect consumers from food-borne illnesses
transmitted through the retail food distribution system.

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