date:May 25, 2016
UF/IFAS hosted a public meeting to help Floridas specialty crop industry understand whats ahead as FDA begins implementing new food safety rules set out under the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. A group of around 150 produce growers, handlers, and other industry allies met in Belle Glade recently to hear FDA representatives discuss the new food safety rules and to get answers to questions on compliance.
A team from FDA, including Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods, gave an overvi