(a)

1. (1) Arkansas consumers enjoy one of the safest food supplies in the world.
2. (2) Enhancing the safety of the food supply is a high priority of the State Board of Health and actions to improve the safety of the food supply are necessary.
3. (3) While most imported foods are safe, reasonable testing requirements are necessary to ensure that imported foods in Arkansas comply with United States food safety requirements.

(b) The board is directing the Department of Health to take all actions available to:

1. (1) Prevent the distribution and sale of imported unsafe foods by means such as requiring suspected foods to be tested to ensure purity;
2. (2) Destroy imported food that poses a serious public health threat;
3. (3) Review the procedures relating to the collection and analysis of suspected adulterated imported foods by private laboratories; and
4. (4) Enhance enforcement against violations of Arkansas law, including the imposition of civil monetary penalties.