In the May 3, 2016, Federal Register, FDA amended the final rule on science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce, meaning fruits and vegetables grown for human consumption. The rule sets forth procedures, processes, and practices that minimize the risk of serious adverse health consequences or death, including those reasonably necessary to prevent the introduction of known or reasonably foreseeable biological hazards into or onto produce and to provide reasonable assurances that the produce is not adulterated on account of such hazards. FDA established these standards as part of the implementation of the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. The final rule published with some editorial and inadvertent errors. The new document corrects those errors, effective May 3, 2016.
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