{"id":189214,"date":"2025-02-04T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=189214"},"modified":"2025-02-04T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:35:41","slug":"legislation-would-protect-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/04\/legislation-would-protect-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation would protect consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS \u2013 State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Jack Daniels (R-New Franklin) recently reintroduced legislation from the 135<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;General Assembly to protect Ohio consumers from inaccurately labeled imitation meat and egg products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Bill 10 will require companies to clearly define the difference between an agricultural food animal product and manufactured protein food products, removing companies\u2019 ability to mimic the agricultural industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis legislation will ensure that Ohioans can safely purchase agricultural food animal products,\u201d Klopfenstein said. \u201cOhio consumers should not have to worry about deciphering labels at the grocery store; they have the right to know what they are purchasing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iowa recently passed a similar legislation with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bill ensures transparency and protects both businesses and consumers from misleading marketing practices in the food industry,\u201d Daniels said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation awaits consideration by the House Agriculture Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS \u2013 State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Jack Daniels (R-New Franklin) recently reintroduced legislation from the 135th&nbsp;General Assembly to protect Ohio consumers from inaccurately labeled imitation meat and egg products. House Bill 10 will require companies to clearly define the difference between an agricultural food animal product and manufactured protein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 17:40:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189215,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189214\/revisions\/189215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}