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FEDERAL REGISTER · RULEAugust 12, 2026IN FORCE

Guide To Minimize Biological Hazards in Ready-to-Eat Fresh-Cut Produce; Guidance for Industry; Availability

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STATUSIN FORCE
EFFECTIVE—
COMMENTS CLOSE—
APPLIES TO · SPEQ TAGBiologicsFood
Document type
Rule
Agency
Health and Human Services Department
Published
August 12, 2026
Document number
2026-16420
CFR references
21 CFR 117
Docket
FDA-2018-D-3583
ABSTRACT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Guide to Minimize Biological Hazards in Ready-to-Eat Fresh-Cut Produce." This guidance supersedes a previous guidance, entitled "Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards of Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables," issued in 2008, and is a final guidance to the draft guidance for industry entitled "Guide to Minimize Food Safety Hazards of Fresh-Cut Produce" issued in 2018. The guidance is intended to help manufacturers or processors of ready-to-eat fresh-cut produce that is not a low-moisture food comply with applicable requirements in our regulations on current good manufacturing practices for hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for human food.

Abstract as published in the Federal Register.