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