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.
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