In this webinar, Adriana Jimenez Lopez, Produce Safety Expert at the FDA, provides an overview on the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule and draft guidance from the FDA to understand the current regulatory framework and requirements regarding soil amendments, with a focus on compost. This webinar:
- Helps growers understand risks and benefits of using BSAAOs and how to comply with the current requirements. This topic is especially relevant to growers of specialty crops that are typically eaten raw and produce covered by the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule (PSR).
- Helps growers and compost producers understand farmers’ annual documentation requirements to demonstrate a valid composting process was used, and that the compost was handled, conveyed and stored in a manner and location to minimize the risk of re-contamination.
- Touches on how FDA’s Subpart F interfaces with USDA’s National Organic Program standards for time intervals between the application of untreated BSAAO on cropland.
This webinar was recored on September 8, 2023. It was hosted by the Composting for Community Initiative of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
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