New food safety regulations on the horizon

摘要

As I sit down to write this article for Pecan South, we've just finished up the holiday season and the kids have started school again. It's a new year and I was pondering the idea of actually choosing a new novel to read over the next few weeks, something I haven't had the time to do for several years. But then it happened, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published the first 2 proposed rules associated with the Food Safety Modernization Act. The 2 documents tallied 670 and 547 pages, thus providing me with over 1,200 pages of "pleasure" reading. That's more than any of the Harry Potter books I had read with my boys over the years. And while I doubt the new proposed rules make the New York Times best seller list, it is a must read for people in the produce industry.