{"id":266,"date":"2022-01-21T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/?p=266"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:31:24","slug":"proposed-revision-to-produce-safety-rule-agricultural-water-requirements-comment-period-open-through-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/proposed-revision-to-produce-safety-rule-agricultural-water-requirements-comment-period-open-through-april-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed revision to Produce Safety Rule agricultural water requirements \u2014 comment period open through April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma\/fsma-proposed-rule-agricultural-water\">a revision of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule<\/a>\u00a0that would change the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for farms covered by the Produce Safety Rule (other than sprouts). Most California fruit, vegetable and nut farms are covered by the Produce Safety Rule, including those with more than $25,000 in average annual produce sales, with some exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FDA\u2019s proposed revision is intended to address stakeholder concerns about the complexity and practical implementation of certain pre-harvest agricultural water requirements. The proposed revision does not change requirements for agricultural water used during and after harvest, or for sprouts. It would introduce a systems-based, pre-harvest agricultural water assessment to evaluate potential hazards and guide risk management decision-making on the farm. Public comments about the FDA\u2019s proposed revision may be submitted via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/12\/06\/2021-26127\/standards-for-the-growing-harvesting-packing-and-holding-of-produce-for-human-consumption-relating\">Federal Register<\/a>\u00a0until April 5, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In California, the Produce Safety Rule is regulated on FDA\u2019s behalf by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/producesafety\/\">Produce Safety Program<\/a>. During the proposed revision\u2019s comment period and until the FDA rulemaking process has been completed, CDFA\u2019s Produce Safety Program will maintain the current inspection process related to this section of the Produce Safety Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/producesafety\/\">CDFA\u2019s Produce Safety Program webpage<\/a>\u00a0for more information about farms covered by the Produce Safety Rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing\u00a0a revision of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule\u00a0that would change the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for farms covered by the Produce Safety Rule (other than sprouts). Most California fruit, vegetable and nut farms are covered by the Produce Safety Rule, including those with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/proposed-revision-to-produce-safety-rule-agricultural-water-requirements-comment-period-open-through-april-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proposed revision to Produce Safety Rule agricultural water requirements \u2014 comment period open through April 5<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[18,9],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-regulation","tag-agricultural-water-requirements","tag-produce-safety-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}