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Have You Taken The Food Safety Training You Need?

Sarah Everhart

Dec 17, 2019
2 min

Have You Taken The Food Safety Training You Need?

By Sarah Everhart The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. There will be several Produce Safety Rule Trainings throughout the state this winter, hosted by a team of experts from the Maryland Department of Agriculture and the University of Maryland, for producers who need to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Farmers who grow produce that is often consumed raw (e.g. berries, leafy greens, tomatoes, cucumbers

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Who Needs To Attend a Training for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)?

Sarah Everhart

Nov 23, 2016
3 min

Who Needs To Attend a Training for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)?

By Sarah Everhart If you are a regular reader of this blog, you have likely read many posts in the past year on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Produce Safety and Preventive Controls Rules. Although we have tried to make FSMA understandable, it is a dense federal law with many varying requirements and compliance dates depending on the type and size of a farmer’s operation. Recently, FSMA training courses available to growers in 2017 were announced. The pur

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Understanding Foodborne Illness Civil Liability

Sarah Everhart

Apr 13, 2016
3 min

Understanding Foodborne Illness Civil Liability

By Sarah Everhart and Ashley Ellixson The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated in 2011 that each year 48 million people, or 1 in 6 Americans, get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Ingesting food contaminated with disease-causing microbes, pathogens, poisonous chemicals, or other harmful substances causes foodborne illness. When an individual becomes sick or dies from a foodborne illness, the individual or family often

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Mar 18, 2016
3 min

Weekly News Roundup: March 18th, 2016

By Mayhah Suri Agriculture Department Releases Preliminary Soil Phosphorus Data On March 14th, the Maryland Department of Agriculture announced that based on statewide soil test information 82 percent of farm fields tested to date will not be impacted by new environmental regulations, which may limit phosphorus application or the use of animal manure as a fertilizer. Eighteen percent of farm fields will require use of the phosphorus management tools to evaluate risk. Only 1

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Mar 4, 2016
3 min

Weekly News Roundup: March 4th Edition

By Mayhah Suri Welcome to the Maryland Risk Management Blog! We’re happy to see that our subscriber list is growing every week. To all our new readers, welcome. To all our readers, we are interested in learning what topics you want us to cover. Feel free to comment below or contact any of us using the information in the “About” section. Supreme Court Decide to Not Hear the Challenge to the Bay’s TMDL On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court’s upho

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Maryland’s Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) Program

Sarah Everhart

Mar 5, 2015
2 min

Maryland’s Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) Program

By Sarah Everhart By authority granted by Maryland Code, Agriculture Article, Section 10-602 the Secretary of Agriculture may adopt voluntary programs related to the certification of farm products. Using this authority, the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) created the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) program to improve food safety in the production and packing of fruits and vegetables. GAP refers to farming methods which reduce the likelihood of contaminating produc

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