USDA Unveils Online Tool to Help Farmers With Food Safety

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by Helena Bottemiller | Dec 16, 2011
During the heated debate last year over the newly enacted Food Safety Modernization Act, small farmers were loud and clear with their concerns about burdensome food safety regulations. Farmers across the country, along with sustainable agriculture interest groups, even managed to beat out large ag interests and win certain exemptions from new food safety rules, under the Tester amendment.

"Farmers want to work the land, they don't want to spend days upon days trying to figure out paperwork," said Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. Joined by a broad coalition of industry, non-profit, and government stakeholders, Merrigan Thursday unveiled a new, free online tool to help farmers create customized food safety plans. The platform will help streamline the process, making it easier for farms of all sizes to create a comprehensive plan aimed at reducing food safety risks, whether or not they fall under the purview of new FSMA requirements.


Read more at http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/12/usda-touts-new-online-tool-to-help-farmers-with-food-safety/
 
 
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