The Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-DBIC) announces the availability of funds through the Dairy Marketing and Branding Services Grant Program. This grant will provide funds grants for established value-added dairy processors and producer associations to access professional marketing and branding services to elevate value-added dairy businesses. Projects funded by this grant will increase the exposure and promotion of regionally produced dairy products guided by marketing/branding professionals. Funded projects will increase consumer awareness of products, develop market channels and distribution opportunities to increase product placement, support innovative strategies to increase consumption, and/or increase business revenues. Additionally, up to 25% of the grant funds may be used to implement the strategy and/or content developed by the contractor.

Licensed dairy processors and producer associations from the Northeast are invited to apply. The Northeast region, for the purposes of NE-DBIC programs, includes the following states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

For use beginning 12/30/2022
This notice instructs Inspection Program Personnel (IPP) on the actions to take to accurately document information about the HACCP system in the establishment profile in the Public Health Information System (PHIS). This notice instructs IPP to complete the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan name for establishments with one or more Critical Control Points (CCPs)in a HACCP plan or to enter “No HACCP Plan” for establishments that have a supportable hazard analysis that has determined there are no food safety hazards reasonably likely to occur and therefore no CCPs (no HACCP plan) for that HACCP process category.

A presentation on the FSMA harvest and post-harvest agricultural water requirements.

FSMA Agricultural Water Record Templates can be used to satisfy record keeping requirements.