Broadcast Newsline: November 2, 2012
As a part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, all facilities, including cotton gins and cottonseed storage facilities, that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human or animal consumption within the United States or foreign facilities that export to the United States must re-register in even numbered years beginning with 2012.
Today's Cotton Newsline is 4 cuts. All cuts are Harrison Ashley, Vice President of Ginner Services for the National Cotton Council.
Suggested Introduction 1:
As a part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, all facilities, including cotton gins and cottonseed storage facilities, that manufacture, process, pack or hold food for human or animal consumption within the United States or foreign facilities that export to the United States must re-register in even numbered years beginning with 2012. Harrison Ashley, Vice President of Ginner Services for the National Cotton Council shares the re-registration details.
Suggested Introduction 2:
Gins and cottonseed storage facilities were required to register in 2003 under the FDA's Food, Feed Bioterrorism Rule.
Suggested Introduction 3:
There is no cost for gins or cottonseed storage facilities to register.
Suggested Introduction 4:
Ashley explains why cotton and its byproducts fall under this regulation.
