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Training Growers, Growing Trainers: Preparing for New Food Safety Requirements

November 15, 2016 Elanor Starmer, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator

Are you preparing to meet the new Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Produce Safety rule standards? Have you heard about Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)? Maybe you’ve heard that they can get buyers to notice your products and improve your access to the market place - but you need more...

Health and Safety

Meeting to Prepare Industry for Food Safety Modernization Act Compliance

April 30, 2015 Charles Parrott, Agricultural Marketing Service Fruit and Vegetable Program Deputy Administrator

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending a public meeting held by our colleagues at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide an update for the pending Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This law will make significant changes to the country’s food safety laws, including the first...

Health and Safety

Smokey Bear, Iconic Symbol of Wildfire Prevention, Still Going Strong at 70

August 07, 2014 Kathryn Sosbe, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

“Remember . . . Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires.” For more than 50 years, that iconic catch phrase grabbed the hearts and minds of generations of children, spurred a series of books, games and gifts, helped to change the face of wildland firefighting and prompted more than one child to grow up to...

Forestry
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