Regulatory Watch

USDA proposes amendments to Quality Systems Verification Programs

UDA proposes including commodities authorized under the Agricultural Marketing Act.

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing amendments to multiple parts of 7 CFR – Agriculture to add to their effectiveness and include commodities authorized under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946.

The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing the following changes to part 62, “Quality Systems Verification Programs:” Removing the reference to “Livestock, Meat, and Other Commodities” from the regulation title; defining the types of programs and services offered under QSVP; and updating administrative items.

The proposed amendments are a result of the 2013 merger of the Livestock and Seed and Poultry Programs. Previously, both programs offered QSVP services to their respective industries.

The proposed amendments were published in the Nov. 7, 2016 “Federal Register.” Comments can be viewed at www.regulations.gov.

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.