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FDA to Set Production Standards for Safer Fruit and Vegetables

Farmers and consumers invited to comment on proposed produce safety regulation

FDA
Wed, 07/13/2011 - 06:00
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As headlines from Europe implicate tainted vegetable sprouts in more than 4,000 illnesses and dozens of deaths, American consumers may wonder, “Could that happen here?”

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The United States has had its own headline-grabbing outbreaks from contaminated vegetables—such as lettuce in 2010, peppers in 2008, and spinach in 2006—but a new law has set in motion sweeping improvements to the safety of the U.S. food supply.

President Obama signed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act into law on Jan. 4, 2011, but the year before, the FDA was already gearing up for important work that was mandated by the act: the produce safety regulation.

This regulation will establish mandatory, science-based, minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, sorting, packing, and storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. “This will be a monumental shift in food safety,” says James Gorny, Ph.D., senior advisor on safety of fresh produce at the FDA’s Office of Food Safety.

Since 1998, produce growers have had available the “Good Agricultural Practices” issued by the FDA and the U.S.

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Submitted by Paul Chau on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 20:45

Be cautious

It's good to see that more measure are being put into place about the safer treatent and storage of consumables! There's just so many things that can affect us, it's good to be more cautious!

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