The Food and Drug Administration has announced that new food safety rules will be put in motion following some farmers expressing worry over the former proposals potentially hurting their business. The former proposals required farmers to take extra precautions for contamination and other areas, along with a requirement to submit food safety plans to the government.
The FDA’s new regulations help farmers meet water quality standards and harvest crops more easily. The FDA’s deputy commissioner Michael Taylor told Canadian Grocer that they are aiming to achieve food safety in a practical way.
“This approach has less potential to impose economic hardship on organic farmers, while at the same time supporting the safest food supply in the world,” Gwendolyn Wyard from the Organic Trade Association told Canadian Grocer. The revised rules are due to be finalized next fall.
