About half of all foreign farms supplying produce to the U.S. and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration in recent years have had a written food safety plan, and nearly all had worker hygiene training in place.“We have an emerging interest in foreign farm inspections and I think the trend is going to increase,” said Crystal McKenna, produce safety specialist at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
FDA conducted inspections of foreign farms producing 22 different commodities, including asparagus, bananas, bell peppers, cantaloupes, green onions, mangoes, tomatoes, watermelon and other commodities.
“The good news is that 19 out of 39 had a written food safety plan,” McKenna said. “That shows people are thinking about good agricultural practices.”
However, only one out of 39 had a policy relating to flooding in place, she said.
However, in our opinion, FDA has to inform also about the domestic farm inspections as well.
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