The
Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of a
guidance for industry entitled "Questions and Answers Regarding Food
Facility Registration (Sixth Edition)." The guidance includes one new
question and answer in addition to the questions and answers in the
Fifth Edition of the guidance document, which is being added in light of
an ongoing rulemaking under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
(FSMA) that proposes to make certain changes to the definition of the
term “farm” in 21 CFR 1.227.
The
new question and answer explains FDA’s policy regarding food facility
registration for farms that also pack or hold raw agricultural
commodities grown on a farm under different ownership and that would no
longer be required to register if the proposed amendments to the “farm”
definition are finalized as proposed in the rulemaking. Under this
policy, as discussed in the guidance, FDA does not intend to prioritize
enforcing the registration requirement for such establishments. This
policy is a less burdensome policy consistent with the public health.
FDA intends to make further updates to this guidance once certain FSMA
rulemakings are final in order to make sure questions and answers, key
terms, and definitions are consistent and accurate with regard to the
registration of food facility requirements.
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