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FDA Extends Deadline for Comments

By KRC

11/18/2013

The FDA will accept comments in any of the following formats.

*Via postal mail - typed or hand written, to the following address: Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305); Food and Drug Administration; 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061; Rockville, MD 20852

*Via the Internet - for the Produce Rule: http://bit.ly/fsma-pr ; for the Preventive Controls Rule:

http://bit.ly/fsma-pcr

*Via e-mail - through oira_submission@omb.eop.gov,

*Via fax - please send to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB; Attn: FDA Desk Officer; FAX: 202-395-7285.

All submissions received must include the following:

Your Name,

Your Farm or Organization (if any), and

The appropriate docket number (For the Preventive Controls Rule: FDA-2011-N-0920 and RIN 0910-AG36 ; For the Produce Rule: FDA-2011-N-0921, and RIN 0910-AG35)

To comment on both rules, you can e- mail/fax them together but must label them separately.

Thanks for commenting to protect our farms and food supply!

The Kansas Rural Center is a non-profit organization that since 1979 has worked to promote the long-term health of the land and its people through an economically viable, ecologically sound, and socially just farming and food system. For more information on regulations and best practices around food safety and food marketing in Kansas, please see KRC's Finding Your Niche, A Marketing Guide for Kansas Farms, available at kansasruralcenter.org/marketingguide or by calling 785-873-3431.

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