Designing a Produce Safety Program in the State of Utah in Preparation of Implementation of the FDA Produce Safety Rule

项目摘要/摘要 组织：犹他州农业和食品部 融资机会公告编号：PAR-16-137 犹他州农业和食品部(UDAF)的使命声明是促进 犹他州农业的健康发展，保护我们的自然资源和保护我们的食物供应。 我们的优先事项是提高对农业的沟通和认识，确保食品安全和 保护消费者，并建立伙伴关系和倡导者。UDAF努力利用FDA 生产安全规则(PSR)，一种以科学为基础的预防性规则，用于安全种植、收获、 包装和握持农产品，以推进我们的使命。我们寻求参加FDA的正式 PAR-16-137中发现的协作机会(州和地区合作协议 加强生产安全，准备实施FDA的规则：标准 种植、收获、包装和持有供人类消费的农产品)，合作社 将协助UDAF执行PSR的协议。 通过该计划，UDAF的广泛、长期目标是建立一种多方面的食品 安全计划，鼓励新鲜农产品的安全生产，并促进遵守 《生产安全规则》的要求。UDAF的具体目标是更新犹他州代码以 扩大我们的管辖范围以包括农场；通过以下方式建立和维护农产品农场库存 要求农场在UDAF注册；开发有助于降低风险的生产环境 对农场进行分类；为农产品安全计划的基础设施提供资源 包括人员配备和IT开发；与FDA合作制定多年计划，以 实施新的生产安全体系并定义绩效衡量标准；开发和提供 多种形式的教育、外联和技术援助，优先考虑覆盖的农场； 发展并向监管机构提供教育、外展和技术援助；与 FDA设计和实施具有可共享数据的合规计划；并制定计划 利用定量和定性数据客观衡量进展情况的措施。 农产品安全规则整合的结果是受过教育的监管和农业 社区以及一个强有力的基于检查的合规计划。这些结果使犹他州受益 通过确保食品安全，促进犹他州农业健康发展，建设 伙伴关系和倡导者。

Project Summary/Abstract Organization: State of Utah, Department of Agriculture and Food Funding Opportunity Announcement Number: PAR-16-137 The mission statement for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) is to promote the healthy growth of Utah agriculture, conserve our natural resources and protect our food supply. Our priorities are to improve communication and awareness of agriculture, ensure food safety and consumer protection, and to build partnerships and advocates. UDAF endeavors to utilize the FDA Produce Safety Rule (PSR), a science-based, preventive rule for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce, to advance our mission. We seek to participate in FDA’s formal collaboration opportunity found in PAR-16-137 (State and Territory Cooperative Agreement to Enhance Produce Safety in Preparation of Implementation of FDA's Rule: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, & Holding of Produce for Human Consumption), a cooperative agreement that will assist UDAF with the implementation of the PSR. The broad, long-term objectives of UDAF, via the program, are to establish a multi-faceted food safety program to encourage the safe production of fresh produce and to promote compliance with the requirements of the Produce Safety Rule. The specific aims of UDAF are to update Utah Code to expand our jurisdiction to include farms; establish and maintain a produce farm inventory by requiring farms to register with UDAF; develop a produce landscape that assists with risk categorization of farms; provide resources for the produce safety program’s infrastructure including staffing and IT development; collaborate with the FDA to develop a multi-year plan to implement a new produce safety system and define performance measures; develop and provide education, outreach and technical assistance in multiple formats, prioritizing covered farms; develop and provide education, outreach and technical assistance to regulators; collaborate with the FDA to design and implement a compliance program with sharable data; and develop program measurements to objectively measure progress utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data. The outcomes of the integration of the Produce Safety Rule are an educated regulatory and farming community as well as a robust inspection-based compliance program. These outcomes benefit Utah by ensuring food safety, promoting the healthy growth of Utah agriculture, and building partnerships and advocates.