date:Jan 31, 2013
For farmers who sell fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets, food safety will be business as usual, despite the federal Food and Drug Administrations new proposed rules governing produce.
Business as usual, because most market farmers are exempt from the new rules, just as theyre exempt from the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed into law in 2010.
Under the act, farms are exempt if they average less than $500,000 in food sales annually (for the last 3 years) and sell most