Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 12/8/19


The Food and Drug Administration is providing flexibility for when states may begin conducting routine inspections of small farms, the agency said. The FDA said routine inspections of small farms, other than sprouts operations, subject to the Produce Safety Rule, will generally begin in the spring of 2020. However, the FDA said in a release that states receiving competition A/B funding as part of the State Produce Implementation Cooperative Agreement Program may begin routine inspections as early as Jan. 1.

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