Certified farmers' markets.

Existing law provides for the regulation of certified farmers' markets and authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt regulations to encourage the direct sale by farmers to the public of all types of California agricultural products. This bill would specify the Legislature's intent that the secretary, in adopting those regulations, endeavor to keep costs incurred by farmers and certified farmers' market operators at a minimum, would authorize the secretary to adopt regulations clarifying the certified farmers' market provisions, and would revise the term "agricultural product" for purposes of the certified farmers' market provisions to include raw sheared wool. The bill would also add a provision specifying that nothing in the certified farmers' market provisions shall be interpreted to preclude a certified farmers' market operator from creating and keeping additional information or requiring a vendor to provide additional information, as specified.