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Using insurance to regulate food safety and save growers from rainy days

By Timothy D. Lytton on August 12, 2022

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by The Regulatory Review and is republished here with permission.

Insurance underwriters can help farmers manage the risk of microbial contamination in their fields.

Foodborne illness is a…

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FDA announces it won’t enforce certain aspects of some FSMA rules

By News Desk on March 15, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued guidance on its intent not to enforce certain provisions of five rules that implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011…
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Cost-share program offers help for food safety improvements on South Carolina farms

By News Desk on January 5, 2022

The South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) has announced the “On-Farm Improvement Cost Share Program.” 

Through the USDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant funding administered by SCDA, farmers who are required to comply with the Produce …
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There’s good call for optimism, but grave reasons for concern remain

By Coral Beach on May 8, 2019

The pattern is well established. Bad things happen, and then good things happen as a result. 

But, one man who is uniquely positioned to peer into the future with an informed eye doesn’t think the…
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FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety

By U.S. Food and Drug Administration on October 4, 2018
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Editor’s note: The FDA’s Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Stephen Ostroff combined efforts for this column. 

We know how important it is to get produce safety right. Taking…
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Global group says US food safety audit program is OK; fresh produce exports should increase

By News Desk on August 14, 2018

Fresh produce growers in the U.S. will have an easier time exporting fruits and vegetables now that an international group has given its stamp of approval to a federal food safety audit program.

The nod…
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FDA sends $32.5 million to states for help with produce safety rule

By News Desk on July 13, 2018

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  is funding 46 state agriculture departments and one territory with a total of $32.5 million to help implement the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule.

The National…
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No quick or easy answers for using raw manure on food crops

By Cookson Beecher on May 30, 2018

Watch children’s first reactions at a dairy farm and you’ll see their hands quickly going up to their faces and their fingers pinching their nostrils shut.

“What’s that awful smell,” they’ll ask the farmer.

For…
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Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year

By Dan Flynn on December 22, 2017

Editor’s Note:  The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food …
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Food safety training, treatments addressed in federal grants

By Cookson Beecher on November 29, 2017

If you think you’re got problems, try being a farmer. They’re faced with an impressive array of enemies that are waging war on their crops and their livelihoods. These adversaries don’t need sophisticated weapons. They’ve…
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