NW REGIONAL VIRTUAL MEETING MARCH 2nd- PROPOSED WATER RULE

Please save the date for the Northwest Regional virtual meeting on the Proposed Changes to the Agricultural Water Requirements in the Produce Safety Rule - hosted by NASDA and the Washington State Department of Agriculture.

The FDA is proposing to revise certain pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for covered produce (other than sprouts) in Subpart E of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule, this does not include potatoes. This proposal, if finalized, would replace the pre-harvest microbial quality criteria and testing requirements for such produce in the Produce Safety Rule with requirements for systems-based pre-harvest agricultural water assessments that covered farms would use for hazard identification and risk management decision-making purposes. As part of the assessment, the farms would be required to evaluate the following factors to identify conditions that would be reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto produce or food contact surfaces.

No registration required – first come, first served.

Date: March 2, 2022
Time for 1 hour Webinar:  12:00 Noon Pacific Time

Topic: Northwest Regional Webinar on Proposed Agricultural Water Rule
Date/Time: March 2, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Zoom link to join the meeting-

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Meeting ID: 863 5288 9010      Passcode: 466464

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Meeting ID: 863 5288 9010        Passcode: 466464

For more information on the Proposed Rule on Agricultural Water, see this Fact Sheet, and this link. (Click “en español” for a Spanish translation.) The proposed rule is available for public comment for 120 days to April 5, 2022. Comments should be submitted to docket FDA-2021-N-0471 on Regulations.gov  Enter FDA-2021-N-0471 in the search bar to bring up the proposed rule and click “comment.” Contact for the Washington State Department of Agriculture: Connie Fisk, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.