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'''Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinances''', first drafted in four towns in Hancock County, Maine, are town ordinances establishing local food governance in response to increased federal regulation via the "[http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/fsma/default.htm Food Safety Modernization Act]."<ref>Rich Hewitt, [http://bangordailynews.com/2011/02/24/news/hancock/farmers-seek-to-protect-locally-grown-foods/ Farmers seek to protect locally grown foods], ''Bangor Daily News'', February 24, 2011</ref> Residents who drafted the ordinances in 2010 and 2011 feared that the new law, which President Obama signed on January 4th, 2011, could shut down cottage producers of jam and pickles made from backyard garden produce and church pot lucks without these local ordinances to protect them.<ref>Deirdre Fulton, [http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/120146-free-our-food/?page=3#TOPCONTENT Free our food], ''Portland Phoenix'', May 4, 2011</ref><ref>Kyle Curtis, [http://www.blueoregon.com/2011/04/keeping-church-potluck-legal-and-free/ Keeping the Church Potluck Legal and Free: Will the "Food Sovereignty" Movement Take Hold in Oregon?], ''BlueOregon'', April 24, 2011</ref>