{"id":2472,"date":"2025-04-24T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:18:53","slug":"produce-safety-program-offers-tips-for-fsma-produce-safety-rule-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/produce-safety-program-offers-tips-for-fsma-produce-safety-rule-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Produce Safety Program offers tips for FSMA Produce Safety Rule pre-harvest agricultural water requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/are-you-prepared-for-the-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"243\" data-attachment-id=\"2476\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/produce-safety-program-offers-tips-for-fsma-produce-safety-rule-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements\/04-24-25-psp-ag-water-requirements-tf-small2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2.png\" data-orig-size=\"432,243\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"04.24.25 PSP Ag Water Requirements TF small2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2.png 432w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04.24.25-PSP-Ag-Water-Requirements-TF-small2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Are you prepared for the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The compliance date for the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma\/fsma-final-rule-produce-safety\">Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (PSR)<\/a>\u00a0has begun for Large Farms\u00a0starting on April 7, 2025. Compliance dates for Small Farms\u00a0and Very Small Farms will follow in 2026 and 2027, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/are-you-prepared-for-the-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements\/\">Click here<\/a> to view a CDFA Produce Safety Program blog for resources, including educational materials, Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Grower Trainings, On-Farm Readiness Reviews and the CDFA Technical Assistance Program available to assist with preparing for the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you prepared for the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements? The compliance date for the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\u00a0Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (PSR)\u00a0has begun for Large Farms\u00a0starting on April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/produce-safety-program-offers-tips-for-fsma-produce-safety-rule-pre-harvest-agricultural-water-requirements\/\"><span class=\"text-nowrap\">Continue reading <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,127],"tags":[133,529,131,248],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspection-compliance","category-cdfa-inspection-services-division","category-cdfa-produce-safety-program","tag-food-safety-modernization-act","tag-fsma-produce-safety-rule","tag-produce-safety-rule","tag-produce-safety-rule-agricultural-water-requirements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}