On: 'Vaccine lettuce' bill (food containing a vaccine ...

[ceejayoz]

Such things are already highly likely to fall under the FDA’s purview.

[dude187 → ceejayoz]

It's the legislative branch that determines that, with legislation exactly like this...

[ceejayoz → dude187]

Not the TN one, and the US legislative branch has already given the FDA authority to regulate vaccines.

[dude187 → ceejayoz]

States have a similar setup patterned off the federal government, with most things falling only in the purview of the states. In this case they're correctly making sure that vaccines delivered as food are correctly treated as such under the framework here https://unicourt.github.io/cic-code-tn/transforms/tn/octn/r7...

Considering the active development this is very forward thinking and timely

[ceejayoz → dude187]

Again, under Federal law and regulation, these theoretical products are likely to already be deemed drugs (and this determination would almost certainly preempt any state decision in the opposite direction). The legislation is, at best, redundant.

[dude187 → ceejayoz]

States enforce state law, not federal

[dude187 → ceejayoz]

States enforce state law, not federal