Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 12/17/20


“Assessing Food Safety Practices Among Texas Small Growers,” recently published in the Journal of Food Protection, could set off some alarm bells. It’s a survey of small Texas growers, most of whom are exempted under the “Tester Amendment” from the federal food safety requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The exemption is named for Sen. Jon Tester, D-MT, who in late 2010 blocked the FSMA until the small growers were excluded from the law.

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