The produce rule – one of seven specific regulations called for in the Food Safety Modernization Act – is first going to be subjected to a full-blown Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before it takes effect. With at least one federal judge already breathing down the agency’s neck over completion deadlines contained in the FSMA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is promising the easy-to-bog-down environmental process won’t delay the final rule.

 

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