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FDA Posts Fact Sheets on Produce Safety, HARPC Regulations

The Food and Drug Administration posted three fact sheets and a presentation on its proposed produce safety regulation for facilities that grow, harvest, package and hold raw produce, as well as its Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventative Controls (HARPC) regulation…

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for facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold human food. Importers will be responsible for verifying their foreign suppliers’ compliance with these regulations per the Foreign Supplier Verification Program. The produce safety regulation fact sheet is available here, and a fact sheet on the regulation’s subparts is available here. The HARPC fact sheet is available here. Presentations on the two regulations, as well as other provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act, are available here.