In today's Federal Register, the Obama Administration Food and Drug Administration released four new proposed rules for public comment. Each of the actions re-opens a comment period on selected issues on which the agency has previously issued proposed rules in 2013.
Each individual rule addresses features of the food safety system for both humans and animals. Each of the proposed rules is also an amendment to a previous proposed rulemaking carried out in 2013. FDA now asks for public comment on certain revisions of all of the rules.
The comment deadline on all four rules is December 15, 2014
The first package is on proposed Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption.
The second package is on proposed rules for Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals.....addressing food imports to the United States.
The third package is on Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals.
The fourth package is on Current Good Manufacturing Practiceand Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food. Note that page 1 of this proposed rule is mislabelled to be for animals food production instead of for human food production.