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All businesses need to comply with local, state, and federal registration procedures in order to legally operate. Food-processing businesses are no exception.

This worksheet is a supplement to the Food for Profit: Price and Pricing article.

Food business owners are held responsible for any harm that comes to employees, visitors who come to your establishment, and consumers who eat your products.

Learn the essentials of food safety, including hazards, microbiology, sanitation, hygiene, and HACCP to reduce contamination and protect products and consumers.

The FDA requires food manufacturers to register their facilities with some exemptions for small processors and retailers.

Many dairy foods have federal standards based on composition, manufacturing, and quality requirements that must be met for the legal labeling of a product.

The evolution of the original Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles towards Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) is discussed and requirements within the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulation are summarized.

The rule establishes requirements for shippers, loaders, carriers by motor or rail vehicle, and receivers involved in transporting human and animal food to use sanitary practices to ensure the safety of that food.

Learn how the produce safety rule requires you to make visitors aware of your farm's food safety policies and procedures.

Learn about required food safety education, training, and experience necessary for personnel to perform their assigned duties.

Learn about what the Zone Concept means and what equipment inspection, maintenance, cleaning, and sanitizing procedures are required under the Produce Safety Rule to protect against food contamination.

Learn about what biological soil amendments are, as defined under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and the risks they may pose to produce as it is being grown.

The Produce Safety Rule requires that companies routinely monitor for pests, as they represent an important risk to food safety.

The Produce Safety Rule requires certain personal hygiene practices to prevent the spread of microbes onto food in growing and packing environments.

Learn more about when you should wash your hands and why hand washing is the most important food safety practice.

Learn how to meet compliance requirements in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rule on preventing intentional contamination.

The bacteria Listeria monocytogenes is particularly harmful to pregnant women, newborns, children, elderly, and immune compromised individuals.

This 2.5 day workshop addresses the basic principles of sensory science from discrimination and acceptance testing to good laboratory procedures to the theoretical underpinnings for these practices.

Regulations vary from state to state. Here we provide resources from Pennsylvania and Federal sources. Check with your state Department of Agriculture or local Health Department to determine which regulations you need to follow.

Part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the goal of the Sanitary Transportation rule is to prevent practices during transportation that create food safety risks.

En este video aprenderá sobre el programa de verificación de proveedores extranjeros (FSVP, por sus siglas en inglés) y le ayudará a determinar si está sujeto a las normas y regulaciones del FSVP.

Conozca qué es un plan de inocuidad de los alimentos y quién requiere tener un plan.

Aprenda sobre los mejoradores biológicos de suelo según lo definido en la Ley de Modernización de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos (FSMA, por sus siglas en ingles) y los riesgos que pueden representar para los productos agrícolas frescos.

En los últimos años ha aumentado el conocimiento de que Listeria monocytogenes puede ser un posible contaminante microbiano en alimentos listos para el consumo.

En este video, aprenderá quién está cubierto bajo la norma de controles preventivos para alimentos para el consumo humano.