[Arizona Community Hub]

Hi Makala,

Interestingly enough, just yesterday our food hub sent an email to our affiliated farmers requesting their food safety plans. A few of our farmers either have one already or are working on them as we speak. As a part of free technical assistance for our affiliated farmers, we send them this google form to fill out and we will help them create a food safety plan to use not just for our buyers but for whoever they do business with outside of our hub. I have attached the PDF version of the food safety plan google form for your reference.

I hope this helps!

Dionne

AZ Community Hub

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by  Arizona Community Hub.

forms.gle

Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

AZ-HUB-Google-Form.pdf 101 KB PDF - Click to view

• Copy Download Link

[Makala Bach]

Thanks for the response Dionne, this is helpful!

[Jacob Clark]

For Nebraska we are just ensuring that farms are following the FSMA, and have complied with the Produce Safety Rule. These produce farms are managed and inspected annually by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.

https://nda.nebraska.gov/producesafety/index.html

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma/what-produce-safety-rule-means-consumers

nda.nebraska.gov

Nebraska Department of Agriculture

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) encourages and promotes the interests of agriculture through advocacy and education. In addition, NDA regulates the agriculture industry to ensure the health and safety of all Nebraskans.

[Makala Bach]

Thanks Jacob!

[Hope’s Harvest]

Hey Makala – really good question!

Our state agency, the RI Department of Environmental Management, requires that participating farmers be actively engaged in the process of meeting state food safety requirements. They should be on the list of people waiting to take DEM’s Produce Safety Rule training, and then take the class when it becomes available. If they don’t meet the exemptions for GAP certification, then they should be working on that as well. And they have to be registered with DEM as a farm business.

[Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish Commission]

We are planning on having our team take a Produce Safety Rule training offered by Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative!