De Ann Davis, Author at Western Growers Association Western Growers Association

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Produce Safety: All For One, or Every Stakeholder for Themselves?

Western Growers Response to Reagan Udall Report: Roadmap to Produce Safety “The produce (food safety) system is fragmented, uncoordinated, under-resourced, and not aligned around a common strategy for making produce safer.” This statement from the Reagan Udall Report: Roadmap for Produce Safety is a concise descriptor of the fundamental challenge to those willing to champion systematic…

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FDA’s Food Safety Strategy: Too Much Policing, Too Little Prevention

Western Growers Response to Reagan Udall Report: Roadmap to Produce Safety The Reagan Udall Report: Roadmap to Produce Safety states “The FDA’s implementation of FSMA’s regulatory framework and the national integrated produce safety that FSMA envisioned are incomplete.” FSMA’s intention was to reimagine food safety oversight as a pro-active, science-driven system rather than a…

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