date:Aug 14, 2018
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How was the study conducted?
This study drew on the FDAs published estimates of the 10-year cost of complying with the Produce Rule to develop a function that relates each farms produce sales to its cost of complying with the rule. Using data from the 2012 Census of Agriculture, researchers first computed estimates of the cost of compliance for regulated farms falling within different farm size categories, with varying implementation timelines and possible exemptions over the 201