http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/FruitsVegetablesJuices/FDAProduceSafetyActivities/ucm174086.htm<snip>
“These guidances embody the Obama Administration’s and FDA’s prevention-oriented food safety strategy,” said FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. “They will be made final as soon as possible after public comment, and will be followed within two years by enforceable standards for fresh produce.”
These commodity-specific guidances were called for by the President’s Food Safety Working Group, which recommends a new, public-health focused approach to food safety. In a report issued earlier this month, the working group made recommendations aimed at creating a stronger food safety system. The recommendations stem from three core food safety principles:
* Prevent harm to consumers
* Use good data and analysis to ensure effective food safety inspections and enforcement of the law
* Identify outbreaks of foodborne illness quickly and stop them
Key elements of the draft guidances related to the working group’s strategies include:
* An acceptable baseline standard of industry practices that help both domestic and foreign firms minimize the risk for microbial contamination of their products throughout the entire supply chain
* Recommendations regarding growing, harvesting, packing, processing, transportation, and distribution of the product
* Recommendations for recordkeeping, including some that will help the FDA determine more quickly the source of outbreaks that do occur.
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They forgot to mention, "protect and encourage the consolidation of food production by hampering small operations that have never been shown to be responsible for any sort of food borne illness outbreak."
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