Late last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a guidance document that further delayed the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act changes to FDA Rules for several types of businesses including cotton gins. In the guidance, the FDA said that businesses that would normally be considered a farm in the rule except for their ownership would have the rule delayed until a new rule can be written.

The current rules say that if a gin’s ownership bring more than half the cotton to the gin, it would be considered a ‘secondary activities farm’ but if the majority of the cotton came from Continue reading →

From the National Cotton Council:

Food Facility Registration Underway

Food facilities, including cotton gins and cottonseed storage facilities, are required to register with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to renew their food facility registrations this year. Those facilities must register between October 1 and December 31 of this year.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) amended the food facility registration requirements to include gins and cottonseed storage facilities, which must renew their registrations with FDA every other year during that October 1-December 31 time period.

The registration requirements apply to domestic and foreign food facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States. More information is at http://bit.ly/2cwVbZu.