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Arkansas committee reviews state adoption of federal produce-safety rules; penalty matrix sent to review
Summary
The joint Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development Committee reviewed Department of Agriculture rules to implement the federal produce safety standard and voted to refer the Department’s penalty matrix for review. Department staff said the rule covers producers with more than $25,000 in annual produce sales and that a University of Arkansas Extension subgrant of more than $300,000 will fund outreach.
The Joint House and Senate Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development Committee on a virtual meeting reviewed proposed state rules to implement the federal produce safety standard under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Wade Hodge, counsel for the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, told the committee the state chose to administer the federal rule and is adopting the federal requirements into state regulation. "All we've done in this rule is just saying we're adopting the federal rule because that's what we have to do," Hodge said.
Mark Stowell, the department's section manager for regulatory services,…
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