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The Senate will vote on Tom Vilsack’s nomination for secretary of agriculture on February 23.  There will only be 20 minutes of debate, which indicates there is no controversy surrounding his nomination. The Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously on Feb. 2 in support of Vilsack’s nomination. Earlier, a coalition of over 120 agricultural associations sent a letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee in support of Vilsack. A similar letter was sent by a group of nearly 50 agricultural companies and cooperatives. ‘Extremely low risk’ of COVID-19 through food or food packaging The USDA and the Food and Drug Administration said in a press release this week that there is “no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing COVID-19.”

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