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Optimizing Food Distributor Contracts to Achieve Local Food Procurement Targets
Throughout the US, state and local governments have established local food purchasing targets for food served in public institutions like schools, hospitals, or prisons. This guide offers public sector procurement teams options and strategies to adjust their contracting processes with food distributors to support these policy aims.
Topic: Institutional Procurement Policy, Healthy Food Access Audience: Community Organizations, Consumers, Policymakers, Processors & Distributors, ResearchersBoston’s Good Food Purchasing Policy, Part 2
This case study examines how the Boston's largest food purchaser, Boston Public Schools, has updated its procurement process according to the Good Food Purchasing Policy.
Topic: Food Labels Audience: Processors & DistributorsCountry of Origin Labeling
This issue brief explores the benefits of eating locally, including improved nutrition, reduced environmental impact, and economic support for local communities.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Attorneys, Processors & DistributorsA Guide for Food Hubs on Food Safety Compliance
This guide outlines the legal landscape for food hub decisionmakers looking to build food safety compliance and risk management strategies.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Growers, Processors & Distributors, Technical Assistance ProvidersUnderstanding FSMA’s Preventive Controls Rule
This guide discusses how the Food Safety Modernization Act Preventative Controls Rules impacts grain businesses, and empowers grain farmers, processors, and food manufacturers to understand and comply with federal food safety laws.
Topic: Food Labels Audience: Processors & DistributorsHow Does the First Amendment Apply to Food and Supplement Labels?
This issue brief discusses how the First Amendment may prevent the federal government from restricting or compelling speech on food and dietary supplement labels.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Processors & Distributors, Technical Assistance ProvidersUnderstanding When a Produce Market Intermediary is Subject to FSMA
This fact sheet provides information to assist produce market intermediaries in determining whether they are: (1) facilities that must register with FDA and comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule; (2) secondary activities farms that must comply with the FSMA Produce Safety Rule; or (3) not subject to either FSMA rule.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Community Organizations, Growers, Policymakers, Processors & Distributors, ResearchersFood Safety and Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule State Implementation Interactive Map
This interactive map illustrates the specifics of each state’s individual produce safety program and can be filtered by common questions about state implementation of the PSR, allowing for all states to be viewed side-by-side.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Processors & Distributors, Technical Assistance ProvidersFSMA Supply Chain Program Requirements for Processors and Their Produce Suppliers
This fact sheet clarifies a processor's responsibilities under the Food Safety and Modernization Act Preventive Controls for Human Foods (FSMA PCHF) when working with exempt and qualified exempt eligible farms and qualified mixed-type facilities and outlines what documentation the processor needs to obtain from these suppliers to be compliant.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Growers, Processors & Distributors, Technical Assistance ProvidersUnderstanding the Relationship Between FDA Rules, Guidance, and Other Communications
This fact sheet describes the process for establishing and changing the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Safety Rule and explains the relative legal effect of FDA regulations, guidance, and other FDA communications, particularly those that come through the Technical Assistance Network and Produce Safety Network.
Topic: Food Safety Audience: Growers, Processors & Distributors, Technical Assistance ProvidersUsing the FDA Technical Assistance Network and FOIA to Access Information About FSMA
The FDA Technical Assistance Network (TAN) is a resource for the food safety community that answers specific questions about Food Safety Modernization Act compliance. This fact sheet explores the considerations relevant to making the TAN responses available to the public.