March 22, 2013

FSMA Proposed Rules on Harvesting and Manufacturing

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has republished its new proposed rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act correcting several issues from the original publishing on January 16, 2013.  The corrections include typographical errors, stylistic errors and some wrong dates for references.

To view the rule on the Standards for Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding, click here.

To view the rule on the Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis, click here.

 

March 15, 2013

Reopening the Comment Period on the Qualitative Risk Assessment

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is reopening the comment period for the “Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for Activities Conducted on a Facility Co-Located on a Farm.

To view the notice, click here.

 

February 22, 2013

FSMA Rules Comment Period Extended for Information Collection

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a request to extend the comment period for information collection for the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules on good manufacturing and growing to May 16, 2013.

To view the good manufacturing and growing rules, click here and here respectively.

To view the notice, click here.

 

February 15, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled several public meetings to discuss its recently proposed rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The first meeting will be February 28, 2013 in Washington, D.C.  Two succeeding meetings will be held in Chicago, IL on March 11, 2013 and in Portland, OR on March 18, 2013.

To view the notice, click here.

 

January 17, 2013

Food Safety Modernization Act

UPDATE - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The two rules deal with the growing and processing sides of food production. Along with the two proposed rules, the FDA also released a Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment, which it used to draft the proposed processing rule.

To view the proposed growing and processing rules, click here and here respectively.

To view the Federal Register on the Qualitative Risk Assessment, click here.

To view the FDA Fact Sheet on the proposed growing and processing rules, click here and here respectively.

To view the Qualitative Risk Assessment, click here.

 

January 08, 2013

FDA Proposes New Food Safety Rules

 

Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to establish science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce, meaning fruits and vegetables grown for human consumption.

To view the rule, click here.

Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the availability of, and is requesting comment on, its “Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for Activities (Outside the Farm Definition) Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on a Farm.” The purpose of this draft document is to provide science-based risk analysis of those activity/food combinations that would be considered low risk.

To view the notice, click here.

New Proposed Rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practice

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to amend its regulation for current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food (CGMPs) to modernize it.

To view the rule, click here.