Pursuant to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSCA), the FDA issued a proposed rule titled the "Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food".  This new regulation will have a significant and substantial impact on sanitary food transportation, including insurance coverage and liability concerns, administrative requirements, training, and record keeping requirements. Food transported not in compliance with these new regulations may be considered "adulterated" and therefore declared a total loss. The new rule excludes carriers grossing $500,000 or less in annual sales as well as transportation of fully packaged shelf-stable foods, live food animals, and raw agricultural commodities when transported by farms. The final rule is set to be published on March 31, 2016.  The earliest compliance date will be one year from the date of publication of the final rule.  Small businesses (motor carriers with less than $25.5 million in annual receipts or shippers/receivers with fewer than 500 employees) will have two years to comply. For more information, please click on this link to an article written by Regulatory Compliance Committee members Dianna Garren and Rula Fakhouri. SOURCE: Airforwarders Association