FDA Extends Comment Period for Food Safety Rules
A food safety update straight from DC to you: At yesterday’s Senate Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee hearing yesterday, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced that the comment period for...
View ArticleGuest Post – Safety Rules Cloud Beginning Farmers’ Futures
This summer we’ve started taking a closer look at the new food safety laws that are hurtling toward us from the FDA. (Alright, hurtling might be an exaggeration, but the November 16th deadline for...
View ArticleVolunteers needed for food safety reform!
It’s the first major change to farm food safety rules since 1938. Things have changed a fair bit since then, don’t you think? In short, the proposed rules – initiated by the Food Safety Modernization...
View ArticleNew Food Safety Resources to Help Your Action
Less than two weeks remain before the official National Day of Action on food safety! We’ve been hearing from folks all over the country, with events planned not only on October 20th, but all...
View ArticleTwo days until the food safety day of action! Find out how to get involved
The National Day of Action to Save Local Farms is in two days! 64 events are being held in 28 states across the country. Farmers and farming supporters are gathering at annual mixers, informal...
View ArticlePRESS ADVISORY: National Day of Action to Save Local Farms
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18th, 2013 PRESS ADVISORY: National Day of Action to Save Local Farms will bring together farmers, consumers to change proposed FDA food safety rules that threaten farm...
View ArticleWhat’s food day without the farmers?
Happy Food Day! Today is the day that thousands of foodies, farmers, and farm supporters come together to celebrate healthy food, sustainable agriculture and vibrant farming communities. We can’t think...
View ArticleFDA Extends Food Safety Commenting Period One Week!
Yes, you read that right. There have been a series of difficulties over the past week in accessing the regulations.gov website to submit comments on the proposed food safety regulations, so the FDA...
View ArticleBootstrap @ North Country Creamery – Farm Policy on the Small Farm
The most direct interaction I have with the government in the dairy business comes through the New York Sate Department of Agriculture and Markets. Every month, the inspector comes to collect product...
View ArticleGiving Thanks for Grassroots Success
We hope your Thanksgiving holiday was lovely – filled with delicious (and local!) food and wonderful community. Now that the food safety comment period is closed, this seems like an appropriate point...
View ArticleAfter Flood of Letters, FDA Takes a Step Back
The FDA responded last month to the tens of thousands of comments that poured in last year by taking a step back in publishing its proposed food safety rules. The 3,500+ pages of new regulations drew...
View ArticleNYFC January 2014 Newsletter: FDA listens, Jobs, Legal Help, Events
Thank you. Last month, 213 farmers and consumers joined NYFC. This growth topped off an incredible year: a dozen new chapters formed, we rallied nearly a thousand farmers and consumers to tell the...
View ArticleGuest Post – Safety Rules Cloud Beginning Farmers’ Futures
This summer we’ve started taking a closer look at the new food safety laws that are hurtling toward us from the FDA. (Alright, hurtling might be an exaggeration, but the November 16th deadline for...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to FSMA?
About a year ago, the FDA proposed new regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that would have created impenetrable obstacles to starting a new farm business through onerous...
View ArticleSeptember News: Climate Justice, Food Safety News, and Land Access Training
It’s officially fall — we hope you’re catching your breath in the fields and watching the new season edge its way in. The FDA just released a new draft of Food Safety rules and significant...
View ArticleA Re-Focus on Food Safety
This piece is re-posted with permission from “Write to Farm” by Brian Snyder, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Click here to read the original. Food...
View ArticleFood Safety Comments Due at Midnight Tonight – Read NFYC’s Here
Tonight is the deadline for Food Safety comments! This is the final day in a two-year long process, and you’ve got only one final night to get your comment in! We’ve been working with the National...
View ArticleBootstrap @ Chaseholm Farm – Reflections on Policy
Hi All, it’s a rainy day in the Hudson Valley and the cows are inside, we made our rotation last until 10/27 in our first season. Not bad…but room for improvement. Today’s post is about policy issues...
View ArticleFDA Begins Finalizing Food Safety Rules
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began finalizing the new food safety rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). NYFC and our partners have been working on these rules for...
View ArticleFSMA Update: FDA Finalizes the Produce Rule
By Eric Hansen, NYFC Policy Analyst This is what we have all been waiting for, at least those of us with a stake in farm policy. On November 13 , the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the...
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