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Guide To Minimize Biological Hazards in Ready-to-Eat Fresh-Cut Produce; Guidance for Industry; Availability
The Food and Drug Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 12, 2026.
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What the agency says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Guide to Minimize Biological Hazards in Ready-to-Eat Fresh-Cut Produce." This guidance supersedes a previous guidance, entitled "Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards of Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables," issued in 2008, and is a final guidance to the draft guidance for industry entitled "Guide to Minimize Food Safety Hazards of Fresh-Cut Produce" issued in 2018. The guidance is intended to help manufacturers or processors of ready-to-eat fresh-cut produce that is not a low-moisture food comply with applicable requirements in our regulations on current good manufacturing practices for hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for human food.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-16420
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Notification of availability
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Food and Drug Administration
- Published
- August 12, 2026
- Dates
- The announcement of the guidance is published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket No. FDA-2018-D-3583
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 117
- Pages
- 3
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