A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: Includes AMS, NOAA, FSIS

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE

Final rule revising the U.S. Standards for Grades of Grapefruit (Texas and States other than Florida, California, and Arizona) and the U.S. Standards for Grades of Oranges (Texas and States other than Florida, California, and Arizona). Info here.

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Temporary rule NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 620 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). Info here.

Temporary rule NMFS is opening directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 620 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). Info here.

Temporary rule NMFS is opening directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 610 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). Info here.

FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE

Final rule amending the egg products inspection regulations to require official plants that process egg products (herein also referred to as “egg products plants” or “plants”) to develop and implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs) and to meet other sanitation requirements consistent with FSIS’s meat and poultry regulations. Info here.