Building resilient local meat supply chains: how on-farm slaughter fits into the federal meat inspection act.

This guide focuses on food safety Initiative for more information on the Produce Safety Rule.9 requirements because they are one of the most likely places This guide should serve as a tool for food hubs to develop for non-compliance, and food safety is not well-suited for a compliance goals and a high-level strategy. [...] sales to other distributors, sales to is the Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule (PCR).12 restaurants, or institutions).22 For example, a retail food The PCR establishes food safety requirements for food establishment can be a grocery store or restaurant, and a facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for nonprofit serving to customers might be a soup kitchen or consumption in. [...] However, the restaurant or retail food establishment must be located “in the same State or the same Indian reservation Is my food hub regulated under the PCR? as the qualified facility” or no more than 275 miles away from the qualified facility.28 This rule is identical to the The PCR only applies to “a facility that manufactures, qualified exemption for farms from the Produce Safety Rule. [...] processes, packs, or holds food for sale in the United Additionally, the restaurant or retail food establishment States.”18 Importantly, “facility” is a defined term under the must be purchasing the food for sale directly to consumers at rule and does not have a standard, plain language meaning their establishment.29 but instead means a “facility that is required to register [as a food facility wi. [...] To register as a food facility, you will need to create compliance with all the applicable provisions of the PCR an account on the FDA’s website and follow the steps on within 120 days of the withdrawal order.34 the platform.42 (NOTE: There is a similar, but different, qualified exemption for farms that also have food storage and food processing I have determined that I must comply with functions,.