FOOD SAFETY LAW- FSMA listening session

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The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will conduct a Listening Session regarding the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) proposed rules. The Listening Session will include presentations by the FDA regarding the updated revisions to two proposed FSMA rules: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption, and the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals. A question and answer session will immediately follow the presentation.

Date/Time: November 21, 2014, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Where: The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Gulf Coast Research and Education Center
14625 County Road 672
Wimauma, FL 33598

We encourage all interested parties to attend this opportunity to hear the proposed rule changes directly from the FDA. You can attend this event either in person or by using your own computer and phone. Use the links below to choose your method of participation and to register for this program.

Click here to register to attend in person.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fda-listening-session-on-the-produce-safety-and-foreign-supplier-rules-tickets-13731157261

A complimentary meal will be provided for those in-person attendees who register for the lunch ticket option by November 14.

For those unable to attend in Wimauma but still wish to hear the presentation, the event will be broadcast via the internet and phone.

Click here to register to attend via your computer and phone. https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/2056556597121809666

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the training.

All the best

Gene

Gene McAvoy
County Extension Director
Regional Vegetable Agent IV
UF/IFAS Hendry County Extension
PO Box 68
LaBelle, Florida 33975

863-674-4092 office
863-673-5939 cell
gmcavoy@ifas.ufl.edu