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Regulatory Information
OSHA Makes Decision on Sweep Auger Issues: (03/28/2013)
We just received verification that Minnesota OSHA will be adhering to a decision rendered recently in Illinois by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Comission, in regards to the operation of grain bin sweep augers.They indicated that from this day forward, Minnesota OSHA will train their grain staff based on the decision of the Stipulation and Settlement Agreement relating to sweep augersaccording to Section III. (OSHRC Docket No. 11-2725 and OSHRC Docket No. 12-0624). Section lll contains 10 safety principals that will need to be followed when operating a grain bin sweep from inside the bin. Click here for a copy of the OSHA Review Commission findings, including the 10 safety principals contained in the settlement agreement.
More Sweeping Changes to OSHA's Sweep Auger Enforcement
Click here to read the NGFA's "Government and Grain" document. Click here to read the article in the NGFA's newsletter.
MDA's NH3 Service Status Policy
In 2007, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), in cooperation with industry, developed an Anhydrous Ammonia (NH3) Service Status Policy. Read more...
Combined Anhydrous Ammonia Inspection Checklist & Driver's Vehicle Inspection Report
Click the links below for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Transportation and Minnesota State Patrolcombined NH3 equipment inspection checklist and Driver's Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR). Released October 2009
NH3 Equipment Inspection Checklist
Driver's Vehicle Inspection Report
Reportable Food registry Compliance Guide Available from AFIA
The Reportable Food Registry was created by Congress in the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007.
On September 8, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration announced the opening of an electronic portal for reporting "reportable foods," the term the act uses to describe products that have the reasonable potential of causing or having caused a serious, adverse health consequence or death in humans or animals. Read more....
Bioterrorism Act of 2002 & Registration of Food Facilities
The following in an excerpt from a previously published Safety & Health article written by Stu Letcher, MGFA Safety & Health Program Director.
"The Food and Drug Administration has published new regulations affecting food-handling facilities of all varieties including grain and feed handlers. The new regulations are a direct result of The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, which directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take steps to protect the public from a threatened or actual terrorist attack on the U.S. food supply. Registration of Food Facilities is the interim final rule and requires domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture/process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register with the FDA by December 12, 2003......."
Click here to read the full article. Click here to read or print the FDA's booklet What You Need to Know About Registration of Food Facilities.
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