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Value-Added Agriculture
Kansas Department of Agriculture Resources
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This program contributes to food safety by ensuring input to agriculture
are safe and products are not misrepresented to customers. Licenses and
registrations are maintained for individuals selling eggs, livestock
remedies, feed stuffs and pet foods.
Visit the ACAP Web site
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The Kansas Department of Agriculture regulates the retail sale of food
products. Its objective is to ensure that all foods offered for sale are
safe and wholesome.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment inspects restaurants,
school food service operations, senior meal sites, mobile food units and
all lodging facilities.
Visit
the Division of Food Safety Web
site
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Farmers wholesaling or direct marketing meat or poultry products must
register with KDA and submit documentation of what slaughter/processing
facility is being used.
Visit the Meat and Poultry Inspections Web site
A current listing of inspected slaughter and processing plants is available by completing and submitting a KDA Open Records Request.
Open Records Request information
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A Live Plant Dealers License is required for each
location from which individuals grow or sell live plants or give live
plants as a premium for promotional or advertising purposes. Live plants
include any living plant, cultivated or wild, or any part thereof which
can be propagated except cut flowers and greenery not used for
propagation; seeds or sets of any kind; aquatic plants for use in indoor
aquariums; fruits and vegetables for food or feed; and all field and
forage crops.
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Weights and measures inspectors test all kinds of
commercial weighing and measuring devices. All commercial weighing and
measuring devices — including scales used to sell produce or other
products — must be tested annually.
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Irma Lightner
Forbes Field, Building 282
PO Box 19282
Topeka, KS 66619-0282
(785) 862-6574
ilightner@kda.state.ks.us
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Division of Food Safety
109 SW 9th St.
Topeka, KS 66612-1215
(785) 296-3511
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Meat and Poultry Inspections
109 SW 9th, 3rd Floor
Topeka, KS 66612-1215
(785) 296-3511 |
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Open Record Requests
109 SW 9th, 4th Floor
Topeka, KS 66612-1215
(785) 296-3556
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Records Center — Plant Health
109 SW 9th St.
Topeka, KS 66612-1215
(785) 296-2263
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Georgia Smalley
PO Box 19282
Topeka, KS 66619-0282
(785) 862-2415
gsmalley@kda.state.ks.us
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