Posted August 28, 2014
The Food
and Drug Administration’s (FDA) food safety rule for produce is expected to be
available to the public in September, according to The Packer article by Coral
Beach available here.
The Grower also published the article here.
Agency
officials are hopeful that meetings will be scheduled before the year’s end to
gain industry input.
“I’m not
even going to try to describe all of the changes. We received a lot of
comments… there were obviously some places where we didn’t get it right at all.
We are focusing on those areas,” said Roberta Wagner, FDA’s Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) deputy director for regulatory affairs.
Wagner among
leaders from the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, the Sprout Safety
Alliance, and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute for Food Safety
and Health (IFSH) hosted a Web seminar Aug. 26 on the status of rules mandated
by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The
produce rule was expected to be made public this summer. The FDA is under court
order to release the final rule by Oct. 31, 2015.
For more information on food safety, please visit the
National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
