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-- facilities that manufacture/process food, provided that all food used in such activities is consumed on that farm or another farm under the same ownership."
Farm processing doesn't qualify unless it complies with the above provisions. If foods are produced elsewhere, farmers buying them lose their "farm" designation and become subject to annual registration procedures, henceforth done electronically in violation of Amish and other Mennonite customs that consider this practice a violation of their faith.
Extensive registration paperwork will also have to include:
-- certification of a hazard analysis;
-- identifying, implementing, and validating effective preventive controls and monitoring;
-- instituting and verifying corrective measures to address problems; and
-- maintaining records of all of the above and re-analyzing for hazards.
These requirements apply to local as well as others engaged in interstate commerce.
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