Mississippi Business Journal » minors http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Senators opposed to rule changes regulating youth employment in agriculture http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/28/senators-opposed-to-rule-changes-regulating-youth-employment-in-agriculture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senators-opposed-to-rule-changes-regulating-youth-employment-in-agriculture http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/28/senators-opposed-to-rule-changes-regulating-youth-employment-in-agriculture/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:56 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=54845 WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are supporting legislation to stop a proposed new federal rule restricting youth employment on farms and ranches. The senators are original cosponsors on the Preserving America’s Family Farm Act (S.2221), which was introduced last week by Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/28/senators-opposed-to-rule-changes-regulating-youth-employment-in-agriculture/feed/ 1 FDA sends warning to retailers about tobacco sales http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/10/fda-sends-warning-to-retailers-about-tobacco-sales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fda-sends-warning-to-retailers-about-tobacco-sales http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/10/fda-sends-warning-to-retailers-about-tobacco-sales/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:53:08 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=35508 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing its first warning letters to retailers for the illegal sale of tobacco products to minors in violation of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act). Using state inspectors who have been commissioned by the agency, the FDA visited 493 [...]

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