produce safety; FDA; FSMA: food safety; produce safety rule; agricultural water

  • We reported on FDA’s July 30, 2020 release of a testing protocol for the development of new antimicrobial products that could be registered with EPA to treat preharvest agricultural water. 
… Continue Reading FDA Removes L. monocytogenes From Protocol for the Development and EPA Registration of Treatments for Preharvest Agricultural Water

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Continue Reading FDA Proposes Compliance Dates for Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water Requirements and Specifies Duration of Enforcement Discretion for Harvest and Post-Harvest Requirements

 

  • FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rule establishing “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption” (see our detailed summary here) includes an

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Continue Reading FDA Requests Information That Could Result in Expanding the Rarely Consumed Raw (RCR) List of Produce Commodities Exempt From the Produce Safety Rule