Food safety. Shannon Dininny Perhaps no two words have frustrated U.S. fruit growers more — growers who believe their products are already safe and healthy for consumers. But with passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act, growers and packers nationally are scrambling to meet new regulations that impose higher standards and more record keeping on everything from water sampling in the orchard to sanitary practices in the packing house. These new requirements can be confusing for some people — and daunting for many — particularly when some rules have yet to even be finalized. This isn’t news. What is news […]