{"id":2593,"date":"2025-09-25T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:57:42","slug":"cdfa-and-industry-partners-offer-tour-of-california-agriculture-to-fda-food-safety-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/cdfa-and-industry-partners-offer-tour-of-california-agriculture-to-fda-food-safety-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"CDFA and industry partners offer tour of California Agriculture to FDA food safety officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-attachment-id=\"2594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/cdfa-and-industry-partners-offer-tour-of-california-agriculture-to-fda-food-safety-officials\/09-24-25-fda-visit-collage\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage.png\" data-orig-size=\"720,720\" 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=\"09.24.25 FDA Visit Collage\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2594\" style=\"width:837px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage.png 720w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09.24.25-FDA-Visit-Collage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>CDFA Secretary Karen Ross (holding Naturipe strawberries in middle row, right, and other photos) hosts FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Kyle Diamantas (holding Grimmway Farms carrots in top row, left, and other photos).<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">CDFA Secretary Karen Ross and CDFA Inspection Services Director Natalie Krout-Greenberg partnered with Salinas Valley agriculture leaders earlier this week to host a team of federal food safety officials, led by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Kyle Diamantas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">It was an opportunity to spotlight\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/consumers\/food-safety-education-month\">National Food Safety Education Month<\/a>\u00a0with a focus on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma\/fsma-final-rule-produce-safety\">Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule<\/a>,\u00a0which establishes science-based federal minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing and holding of fresh produce for human consumption. CDFA enforces the rule in California via its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/producesafety\/\">Produce Safety Program.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The group took a tour that included farms and processing facilities, including Grimmway Farms, D\u2019Arrigo California, Naturipe Farms, and Taylor Farms; as well as a roundtable discussion at the Monterey County Farm Bureau. CDFA offers a special thank you to the tour\u2019s partners and sponsors, including Western Growers, the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and the Monterey County Farm Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=29317\">Click here<\/a> to view this original CDFA Planting Seeds blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDFA Secretary Karen Ross and CDFA Inspection Services Director Natalie Krout-Greenberg partnered with Salinas Valley agriculture leaders earlier this week to host a team of federal food safety officials, led by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/cdfa-and-industry-partners-offer-tour-of-california-agriculture-to-fda-food-safety-officials\/\"><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":[12,469],"tags":[311,193,465],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdfa-inspection-services-division","category-food-safety","tag-california-agriculture","tag-food-safety","tag-produce-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}