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Facility Rule: Processing Food Safety

Preventive Controls Rule (aka Facility Rule): Requires that food facilities have safety plans that set forth how they will identify and minimize hazards. For facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human consumption.
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Top 10 Food Safety Mistakes

From LEGALLY SPEAKING BY SHAWN STEVENS, As principal of Food Industry Counsel LLC, Shawn Stevens helps food industry clients protect their brand by proactively reducing their food safety exposure. MeatingPlace Blog 6/25/2018 As most of you know, I religiously follow and study recalls and outbreaks.
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Meat: Who Regulates What

Copied from Registrar Corp: FDA & USDA Who Regulates What? "Deciphering whether meat and poultry products are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) can be tricky.
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Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO)

On September 18, 2018, then Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 626 (AB 626), making an amendment to the California Retail Food Code: Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations which established microenterprise home kitchen operation (MEHKO) as a new category of retail food facility.
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Conservation Stewardship Program

CSP offers farmers the opportunity to earn payments for actively managing, maintaining, and expanding conservation activities like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management and silvopasture even while they work their lands for production.
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Building Permits

Photo by Remmington Wanner on Unsplash Most construction, from new construction to alternations and repairs, requires a building permit.
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Applying for a Special Event Permit

Special thanks to an applicant who shared their experience for the following detailed information about applying for a Special Event Permit (PRMD) for unincorporated Sonoma County. (Spring 2019) Begin this process as soon in the planning process as possible. It will take weeks to complete.
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