California Leafy Greens Food Safety Audits Continue
October 8, 2013 Scott Horsfall, the chief executive officer of the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement (LGMA), says that in light of the current environment where many federal government operations are shut down due to fiscal constraints, he and his staff wanted to “ensure our customers and consumers that government food safety audits on leafy greens farms continue uninterrupted.”
The LGMA, operating with oversight from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is a mechanism for verifying through mandatory government audits that farmers follow LGMA food safety practices for lettuce, spinach, and other leafy greens.
In a recent blog post, Horsfall said it is important to understand that LGMA auditors are not direct employees of the federal government, rather the certification and licensing of auditors is provided by USDA, while they operate with oversight from CDFA. The audit program is fully funded by the leafy greens community through mandatory government assessments and is not reliant on tax dollars.
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