FDA’s ‘Proposed Rule for Produce’ tidies up the dirty task of growing things
On Jan. 4, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took the first step in its history to regulate produce farmers. The agency issued a 547-page proposed rule that spends a lot of time reducing everything humanity has learned about plants since agriculture emerged in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago into U.S. governmental jargon.