Technological Barriers to Streamlining the Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program

On a recent Saturday, my co-worker and I spent an unsuccessful five minutes trying to get a Healthy Incentives Program (HIP, a nutrition incentive program in Massachusetts) transaction to go through. We both work at a farmers market selling fruits and vegetables from a farm in upstate Massachusetts. The customer knew that she had $40 in HIP left (the full…

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Biosecurity Risks in the Agricultural Sector

Naomi Jennings is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. According to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), “[u]p to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, impacting the health of both humans and animals.” Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) placed antimicrobial resistance on…

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