Market will likely require owner-operators to adhere to new food safety...
Most, if not all, owner-operators will be exempt from the FDA's new sanitation rules for food haulers, but shippers and brokers likely won't hire carriers who aren't in compliance with the new rule.
View ArticleNew food hauling regulations up the need for clean equipment, lawyer says
Pertaining to new regulations handed down last month by the FDA for food haulers, shippers will now be in charge of setting cleanliness guidelines for truckers and their equipment and could turn trucks...
View ArticleNew program helps owner-operators meet new food hauling standards
Iron Apple created the FSMA Express program, which provides owner-operators with FSMA compliance forms and documents, as well as a 30-minute FSMA training program that includes a certificate of...
View ArticleOOIDA offering training course to meet new FDA sanitary food hauling regs
OOIDA’s course includes a one-hour training module and a test, which awards a certificate of completion, a card to keep in the truck cab and templates of written procedures and checklists for van...
View ArticleTransComply, Iron Apple enter agreement on food safety compliance training
Under the agreement, the companies will consult on the development of new services for carriers regarding the transport of perishable food, and refer their customers to the other company's services.
View ArticleFDA launches training module for new food hauling regs
Individuals who complete the online training module will be able to obtain a certificate of completion from the website. Carriers are also required to maintain records documenting training to be...
View ArticleFood Safety Modernization Act’s requirements for perishables haulers, and...
Much of the burden of FSMA-related compliance falls on food shippers. But there's evidence of a new willingness of shippers/brokers to use contracts to "cram down" liability on carriers, with potential...
View ArticleA new way to do reefer washouts: Produce broker’s ‘Healthy Trailer’ machine
Produce broker Pam Young's response to the Food Safety Modernization Act's new FDA rules for sanitary transportation of fresh food was to conceive of and build a new automated reefer washout machine...
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