FDA sugar house registration

[tuckermtn]

just registered with the FDA, filled out my USDA agCensus report, and filed my business update with the New Hampshire Secretary of State...

get em all done at once- good thing to do on a Sunday night with no football. Rooting for the Packers and Patriots...

[red maples]

FDA Done just have to do the other 2. Eric how long did the Ag census take you? envelopes a little THICK!!!

[johnallin]

Just finished the FDA registration also. Thanks to the help from all of you; it was pretty straight forward and if it helps us promote product so much the better.

[SeanD]

A few quotes that I see from the article,

(maple news) Judith McGreary, director of the farm and ranch freedon alliance says: her understanding of the FSMA is that small scale producers would be exempt who both 1) make less than $.5 million adjusted gross income annually and 2) sell more than 1/2 of there product to qualified end users(direct to consumer retail, restantants, in state retailers or retailers with in 250 mile radius of the producer). Internet sales would included as a direct sale as its easy to track.

I don't get the Maple News, but I appreciate your citing this, Brad. Does anyone know if McGreary's understanding of the FSMA is accurate? I can't find this in the FDA regs.

Based on all of the stuff I can find, everyone who boils sap in a sugar house that is not part of their house needs to register, but this part she has about the size of the operation would make a huge difference for many of us.

Sean

[steve J]

Well I had not registered did not realize I had to and here it is March 6th I am going to try and register now hopefully they do not give me grief.