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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
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Title 21 - Food and Drugs |
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Chapter I—Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services |
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SubChapter B—Food for Human Consumption |
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Part 112 - Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption |
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Subpart E - Agricultural Water |
§ 112.42 - What requirements apply to inspecting and maintaining my agricultural water systems?
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§ 112.42 What requirements apply to inspecting and maintaining my agricultural water sources, water distribution system, and pooling of watersystems?
(a) Inspection of your agricultural water systems. At the beginning of a growing season, as appropriate, but at least once annually, you must inspect all of your agricultural water systems, to the extent they are under your control (including water sources, water distribution systems, facilities, and equipment), to identify any conditions that are reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto covered produce or food contact surfaces in light of your covered produce, practices, and conditions, including consideration of the following:
(1) The nature of each agricultural water source (for example, whether it is ground water or surface water);
(2) The extent of your control over each agricultural water source;
(3) The degree of protection of each agricultural water source;
(4) Use of adjacent and nearby land; and
(5) The likelihood of introduction of known or reasonably foreseeable hazards to agricultural water by another user of agricultural water before the water reaches your covered farm.
(c) You must adequately maintain all agricultural water sources to the extent they are under your control (such as wells).(b) Maintenance of your agricultural water systems. You must adequately maintain all agricultural water distribution systems, to the extent they are under your control, as necessary and appropriate to prevent the water distribution system systems from being a source of contamination to covered produce, food contact surfaces, or areas used for a covered activity, or water sources, including by regularly inspecting and adequately storing all equipment used in the system.
regularly inspecting each sourceSuch maintenance includes
correcting:
(1) Regularly monitoring each system to identify any conditions that are reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto covered produce or food contact surfaces;
e.g.,(2) Correcting any significant deficiencies (
capsuch as control of cross-connections and repairs to well
casingcaps, well
, and control of cross-connectionscasings, sanitary seals, piping tanks, and treatment equipment
.);
(3) Properly storing equipment and keeping the source and distribution system free of debris, trash, domesticated animals, and other possible sources of contamination of covered produce to the extent practicable and appropriate under the circumstances
d; and
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you must implement4) As necessary and appropriate,
as a result ofimplementing measures reasonably necessary to reduce the potential for contamination of covered produce with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards
. Forresulting from contact of covered produce with pooled water
such measures may include using(for example,
staking to keep covered produce from touching the ground or using an alternative irrigation methodthrough use of protective barriers or
through equipment adjustments).