Traceability - meetings coming up

A spokesman for the FDA told me today there will be a public meeting in mid-November in Oakland about produce traceability, and a PMA member communication forwarded me by Julia Stewart adds some details about a similarly-oriented public meeting slated for mid-October in the DC region. Look for complete details with in a Federal Register notice to be published tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Julia notes that the Produce Traceability Initiative is expected to issue a press release by Wednesday or so detailing the group's progress on a timeline and other details.