If your farm operation grows produce, then the FSMA Produce Rule may apply to your produce growing, harvesting, and packing activities.
“Any fruit or vegetable (including mixes of intact fruits and vegetables) [including] mushrooms, sprouts (irrespective of seed source), peanuts, tree nuts, and herbs.
"A fruit is the edible reproductive body of a seed plant or tree nut (such as apple, orange, and almond) such that fruit means the harvestable or harvested part of a plant developed from a flower.
"A vegetable is the edible part of an herbaceous plant (such as cabbage or potato) or fleshy fruiting body of a fungus (such as white button or shiitake) grown for an edible part such that vegetable means the harvestable or harvested part of any plant or fungus whose fruit, fleshy fruiting bodies, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food and includes mushrooms, sprouts, and herbs (such as basil or cilantro).”
Produce does not include food grains, which means “the small, hard fruits or seeds of arable crops, or the crops bearing these fruits or seeds, that are primarily grown and processed for use as meal, flour, baked goods, cereals and oils rather than for direct consumption.”
