{"id":328,"date":"2023-01-06T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/?p=328"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:25:07","slug":"how-california-produce-farmers-can-prepare-for-produce-safety-rule-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/how-california-produce-farmers-can-prepare-for-produce-safety-rule-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"How California produce farmers can prepare for Produce Safety Rule inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) has published an interview with Sarah Standiford of CDFA\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/producesafety\/\">Produce Safety Program<\/a>&nbsp;as part of a Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) case study series. The interview highlights how California farms can prepare for a FSMA Produce Safety Rule inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article\u2019s Q&amp;A format reviews the background of why CDFA performs these inspections on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the steps that occur during an inspection, and tips for farmers preparing for an inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCDFA really values \u2018soft skills\u2019 in their inspectors and we understand that growers\u2019 farms are their livelihoods,\u201d Standiford says in the interview. \u201cCDFA\u2019s Produce Safety Program is here to help farms feel comfortable with the FSMA produce safety requirements and to foster compliance with the Produce Safety Rule. It\u2019s a shared responsibility between growers, inspectors and farm employees \u2013 we all need to work together to keep our food safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caff.org\/california-fsma-produce-safety-rule-inspector-interview\/\">Click here to read the CAFF interview, \u201cFSMA Inspection Case Study: CDFA FMSA PSP Inspector.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=25192\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to view this original post on CDFA\u2019s Planting Seeds blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) has published an interview with Sarah Standiford of CDFA\u2019s&nbsp;Produce Safety Program&nbsp;as part of a Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) case study series. The interview highlights how California farms can prepare for a FSMA Produce Safety Rule inspection. The article\u2019s Q&amp;A format reviews the background of why CDFA performs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/how-california-produce-farmers-can-prepare-for-produce-safety-rule-inspection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How California produce farmers can prepare for Produce Safety Rule inspection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,6,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-education","8":"tag-inspections","9":"tag-produce-safety-program","10":"tag-psp","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Graphic-for-01.23-Blog-Post.jpg?fit=485%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paw7s8-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/ProduceSafety\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}