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title: "7 U.S.C. § 7655"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 7655 - Safe food handling education

## Text

The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue to develop a national program of safe food handling education for adults and young people to reduce the risk of food-borne illness. The national program shall be suitable for adoption and implementation through State cooperative extension services and school-based education programs.

(Pub. L. 105–185, title VI, § 616, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 606.)