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FDA plans to regulate hay production and marketing.Reason?

PORKER

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FDA plans to regulate hay production and marketing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced recently that farms that produce, market and transport hay in the United States will be required to comply with FDA documentation and recordkeeping requirements under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act of 2002. Congress specifically exempted farms and ranches from the requirements of the act, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is working diligently to maintain that exemption. In a letter to FDA, NCBA said, “Unfortunately, counter to the intent of Congress, the FDA has chosen to redefine farms as ‘facilities that pack or hold food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised or consumed on that farm or another farm under the same ownership.’ This definition excludes virtually all farms from the exemption. This is clearly inconsistent with the intent of Congress.” NCBA added that it knows of no data that “hay represents, in FDA terminology, a ‘threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.’ Consequently, requiring a complex and costly system for hay traceablility does not represent an appropriate expenditure of Federal, state, local government or farmer’s financial and human capital resources.” −NCBA

***** NCBA added that it knows of no data that “hay represents, in FDA terminology, a ‘threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.’
Well, then how does CWD, Foot and Mouth ,Bangs,Avain Flu ,etc. get moved around the country ? You don't suppose that elk and deer eating on stored hay in the field before shipment is the cause. In France they tracked down the spread of Avain Flu to bird S##t on hay and bedding to Farm raised Turkeys and chickens. Someone At NCBA might need to take a course in Zoology before they put out statements like above.
 

Econ101

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Is this the same FDA that has trouble regulating supplements and have problems with insuring the truth about new drugs on the market?
 

William Kanitz

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Yes this is the Same FDA and when they don't get what they want ,they call in the FBI to arrest you and search your holdings and personal files.
 

PORKER

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FDA plans to regulate hay production and marketing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced recently that farms that produce, market and transport hay in the United States will be required to comply with FDA documentation and recordkeeping requirements under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act of 2002. Congress specifically exempted farms and ranches from the requirements of the act, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is working diligently to maintain that exemption. In a letter to FDA, NCBA said, “Unfortunately, counter to the intent of Congress, the FDA has chosen to redefine farms as ‘facilities that pack or hold food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised or consumed on that farm or another farm under the same ownership.’ This definition excludes virtually all farms from the exemption. This is clearly inconsistent with the intent of Congress.” NCBA added that it knows of no data that “hay represents, in FDA terminology, a ‘threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.’ Consequently, requiring a complex and costly system for hay traceablility does not represent an appropriate expenditure of Federal, state, local government or farmer’s financial and human capital resources.” −NCBA
 

PORKER

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UPDATED;3. What if hay is sold to another farm?

If a farm is exempt, it does not lose its exemption by virtue of selling hay to another farm. However, if a farm purchases hay from another farm and then resells the hay, then it is brokering hay. Brokering hay is not a farm activity and is not exempt.

4. Is a farm required to keep records of who transported hay it buys or sells?

No. If a farm is exempt, the trucks it uses as part of its farming operation fall within the exemption. However, if a commercial trucker transports the hay, then the trucking operation must maintain records under the rule.

5. If a farm mixes corn and hay with a protein supplement and feeds it to its cattle, does it lose its farm exemption?

No. In that case, the farm is engaging in "manufacturing/processing" of feed, but it is still an exempt farm as long as all of the feed it manufactures is consumed on that farm or another farm under the same ownership.
 

PORKER

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FDA – Record Maintenance
Grain Handling facilities and Feed Mills Compliance and Record Access

•When FDA has a reasonable belief that an article of food is adulterated and presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals

•Record access for all immediate previous sources and all immediate subsequence sources of food received, held, manufactured, processed or distributed is required
 

PORKER

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http://www.scoringsystem.com/content/pr_keepmedia.htm ; nice link to FARM INDUSTRY News Story on FDA records to be keep by anyone selling feed or food .
 

PORKER

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In a letter to FDA, NCBA said, “Unfortunately, counter to the intent of Congress, the FDA has chosen to redefine farms as ‘facilities that pack or hold food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised or consumed on that farm or another farm under the same ownership.’
 
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