For Commercial Vegetable Growers
Date: Tuesday, August 20, at 5:30 pm
Location: RAREC
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield)
- Investigator Presentations and Research Plot Tours
- Bring your plant insect, disease, or weed samples for identification
- Pesticide recertification credits
July 28, 2013 Wes Kline
RAREC Vegetable Twilight and Research Tour
June 19, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
Farm Food Safety: FDA Q&A Printable Summary
The Food Safety Modernization Act will impact most growers in New Jersey.
Over the past weeks, we have posted the Questions and Answers for each of the conference calls focusing on subparts of the proposed Produce Safety Rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act on the PPA Food Safety section. For your convenience, the Q&A’s have been collected into a single PDF.
May 28, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
Will The FDA Preventive Control Rules Affect Your Farm?
Proposed Rule: Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls for Human Food.
This is another proposed rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act which will affect some packinghouses, specifically operations that qualified for the FDA Food Facility Registration. Farms are exempt from this rule IF they grow and harvest produce in one general location, do not pack product from other farms and do not cut into the consumable portion of the product.
May 22, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
FDA Q&A: Health, Hygiene and Training
Food Safety Modernization Act Question and Answer Session on Health, Hygiene and Training, subpart D.
This FDA Proposed Produce Food Safety Rule Q & A conference call, coordinated by the Produce Safety Alliance, discussed health, hygiene and training focus areas of the impending Food Safety Modernization Act produce rule.
Questions asked during this conference call were:
May 17, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
FDA Food Safety Q&A: Equipment, Tools, Buildings & Sanitation
The FDA Proposed Produce Food Safety Rule Q & A conference call, coordinated by the Produce Safety Alliance, discussed equipment, tools, buildings and sanitation practices that will be affected by the impending Food Safety Modernization Act produce rule.
Here are the questions and answers from that call:
1. Are cats permitted in packing houses? They serve as effective rodent control.
May 7, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
FDA Food Safety Q&A: Wild and Domestic Animals
The FDA Proposed Produce Food Safety Rule Q & A conference call, coordinated by the Produce Safety Alliance, discussed domestic and wild animals. This conference call focused on the potential impact of the rule on production practices regarding animals.
1. The phrase is used “growers will act appropriately” regarding potential contamination from animals on the farm. This phrase is very vague; will there be guidance from the FDA detailing what is “appropriate” action?
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