Washington, Sept. 9 -- Congressman David Valadao issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) introduced the Rooting Out Mislabeled Agriculture (ROMA) Act alongside Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-04), David Rouzer (NC-07), Jim Costa (CA-20), James Gallagher (CA-01), and Don Davis (NC-01). This bipartisan bill would strengthen efforts to prevent low-quality foreign-grown tomatoes from entering the U.S. marketplace illegally through mislabeled blended imported tomato products by authorizing the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to use isotopic testing to verify the country of origin.
China is a major producer of processing tomatoes, with significant production occurring in regions linked to serious forced-lab...