The third FDA Proposed Produce Food Safety Rule Q & A conference call, coordinated by the Produce Safety Alliance, was held on Monday. This conference call focused on soil amendment use in the proposed rule. Details on soil amendments in the proposed rule can be found in Section F Biological Soil Amendments. The FDA officially announced that it will extend the comment period by 120 days, allowing comments until September 16, 2013. Visit the FDA webiste to comment on these proposed rules.
Here are the questions from agricultural organizations and growers and answers from the FDA on Monday’s conference call:
1. If raw manure is applied to a field and then plastic is laid prior to seeding or transplanting is this a practice that is accepted to reduce the days to harvest to zero? [Read more…]