date:Jan 07, 2013
delines for how farms deal with water, worker hygiene, materials put into the soil and packaging of products. Taylor emphasized that the guidelines were flexible enough to be implemented by farms of all sizes.
We've said all along that we do not want regulation that is 'one size fits all,' he said.
In practice, that means that the produce standards don't apply to all farms. (The word exemption appears 180 times in the produce rule [pdf].) Taylor noted that the rules only apply to farms that se