2016-20301: Classification of Activities as Harvesting, Packing, Holding, or Manufacturing/Processing for Farms and Facilities; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Classification of Activities as Harvesting, Packing, Holding, or Manufacturing/ Processing for Farms and Facilities; Draft Guidance for Industry." The draft guidance, when finalized, will help food establishments determine whether the activities that they perform are within the "farm" definition established in our regulation for Registration of Food Facilities. Determining whether the activities a food establishment performs are within the "farm" definition plays a key role in determining whether its business is exempt from our regulations for Registration of Food Facilities, and from certain requirements in our regulations for "Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food" and "Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals."
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 2 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
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