A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.
REGULATORY: Includes CCC, FNS, USDA FSIS, NOAA
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION
Final rule implements the mandatory changes required by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) and other changes made by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) on behalf of CCC. Info here.
Final rule implements the mandatory changes required by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) and other changes made by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) on behalf of CCC. Info here.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE – FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE
Notice of Meeting FSIS is hosting a virtual public meeting on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, to discuss the Agency’s commitment to reducing Salmonella contamination associated with FSIS-regulated products. Info here.
Notice of Meeting FSIS is announcing a virtual meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) on September 24-25, 2020 to review and advise about the steps FSIS should take to ensure better control of artisanal, shelf-stable ready-to-eat (RTE) fermented, salt-cured, or dried products that rely on multiple hurdles for lethality. NACMPI will also review and advise whether the Agency should continue not to test boxed beef primal and sub-primal products for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), if they are intended for intact cuts. Info here.
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE
Final rule amends the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulations to implement provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill regarding monthly benefit issuance allotments, storage of benefits off-line, and permanent expungement of unused benefits, as well as related benefit expungement and off-line storage provisions of the 2018 Farm Bill. Info here.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Notification that the State of North Carolina is transferring a portion of its 2020 commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Info here.
Notification that the Commonwealth of Virginia is transferring a portion of its 2020 commercial bluefish quota to the State of Rhode Island. Info here.
Temporary rule NMFS implements accountability measures (AMs) for the red snapper recreational sector private angling component in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) off Texas for the 2020 fishing year. Info here.