Excellence in Transportation by Merx Global

It`s been a month since the new regulation for transportation of human and animal food went into effect, but some drivers and owner operators still get surprised when loading or unloading at a facility. The regulation is part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, and it aims to protect food “from the farm to the table.” The final rule proposed back in 2013, it was published in April of last year, but it`s officially enforced since 6th of April this year. According to The Voice of Food Retail, the final Sanitary Transportation Rule is designed to create a risk-based framework for food safety. In other words, the primary goal of that rule is to prevent any contamination of human and animal food loads transported by rail or road vehicles. The Sanitary Transportation Rule applies to shippers, carriers, loaders and receivers in the process of transportation. “Among the many operations covered by the rule are shippers, loaders, carriers and receivers involved with motor or rail ve...

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