In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature provided funding to the MDA for grants to organizations in Minnesota to develop enterprises, supply chains, and markets for continuous-living cover crops and cropping systems in the early stages of commercial development.
The first of two Requests for Proposals (RFP) for this competitive grant opened Monday, September 11, 2023 and closed October 2, 2023. A summary of selected project is included in the table below.
| Organization Name | Project Summary | Award Total |
|---|---|---|
| Gertens | Propagate up to 10,000 farm-ready hybrid hazelnut plants | $50,000 |
| MSX Nexgen Inc. | Supply a regional location to preclean, dry, and store winter camelina, Kernza, and other CLC crops as needed. | $50,000 |
| Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative | Expand marketing to existing customers and sales of Kernza grain to new customers. | $48,000 |
| River Rock Kitchen & Baking Co | Incorporate Kernza into at least 75% of their baked goods. This project was featured in one of the Meet the Minnesota Makers articles. | $50,000 |
| Rookie Farmers, LLC | Purchase a winter camelina cleaning trailer. | $50,000 |
- Seafood HACCP regulation applies to processors and importers selling fishery products for wholesale (i.e., sales to other businesses or distributors).
- Any products that are sold wholesale must be processed in accordance with the regulation, provided that the product is in interstate commerce. This is true even if the firm's primary business is retail.
Exemptions - The rule does not apply to:
- Harvesting or transporting fish or fishery products, without otherwise engaging in processing.
- Practices such as heading, eviscerating, or freezing intended solely to prepare a fish for holding on board a harvest vessel.
- Retail establishment solely selling fishery products to the end consumer.
- Seafood HACCP regulation applies to processors and importers selling fishery products for wholesale (i.e., sales to other businesses or distributors).
- Any products that are sold wholesale must be processed in accordance with the regulation, provided that the product is in interstate commerce. This is true even if the firm's primary business is retail.
Exemptions - The rule does not apply to:
- Harvesting or transporting fish or fishery products, without otherwise engaging in processing.
- Practices such as heading, eviscerating, or freezing intended solely to prepare a fish for holding on board a harvest vessel.
- Retail establishment solely selling fishery products to the end consumer.
- Fish means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans, other forms of aquatic animal life (including, but not limited to, alligator, frog, aquatic turtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and sea urchin and the roe of such animals) other than birds or mammals, and all mollusks, where such animal life is intended for human consumption.
- Fishery product means any human food product in which fish is a characterizing ingredient.
- Molluscan shellfish means any edible species of fresh or frozen oysters, clams, mussels, or scallops, or edible portions of such species, except when the product consists entirely of the shucked adductor muscle.
- Processor means any person engaged in commercial, custom, or institutional processing of fish or fishery products, either in the United States or in a foreign country. A processor includes any person engaged in the production of foods that are to be used in market or consumer tests.
- Processing means, with respect to fish or fishery products: Handling, storing, preparing, heading, eviscerating, shucking, freezing, changing into different market forms, manufacturing, preserving, packing, labeling, dockside unloading, or holding.
- Fish means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans, other forms of aquatic animal life (including, but not limited to, alligator, frog, aquatic turtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and sea urchin and the roe of such animals) other than birds or mammals, and all mollusks, where such animal life is intended for human consumption.
- Fishery product means any human food product in which fish is a characterizing ingredient.
- Molluscan shellfish means any edible species of fresh or frozen oysters, clams, mussels, or scallops, or edible portions of such species, except when the product consists entirely of the shucked adductor muscle.
- Processor means any person engaged in commercial, custom, or institutional processing of fish or fishery products, either in the United States or in a foreign country. A processor includes any person engaged in the production of foods that are to be used in market or consumer tests.
- Processing means, with respect to fish or fishery products: Handling, storing, preparing, heading, eviscerating, shucking, freezing, changing into different market forms, manufacturing, preserving, packing, labeling, dockside unloading, or holding.
All processors must conduct, or have conducted for them, a hazard analysis to determine whether any food safety hazards are reasonably likely to occur in their product. This hazard analysis must be conducted for each location, each process, and each type of product processed. If no food safety hazards are identified, then a HACCP plan is not required.
All processors must conduct, or have conducted for them, a hazard analysis to determine whether any food safety hazards are reasonably likely to occur in their product. This hazard analysis must be conducted for each location, each process, and each type of product processed. If no food safety hazards are identified, then a HACCP plan is not required.
Yes, a HACCP-trained individual must perform the hazard analysis initially, at least annually, and whenever there is a change in the firm's operations that might affect the hazard analysis, even if the product does not need a HACCP plan. However, the trained individual does not need to be an employee of the processor.
Yes, a HACCP-trained individual must perform the hazard analysis initially, at least annually, and whenever there is a change in the firm's operations that might affect the hazard analysis, even if the product does not need a HACCP plan. However, the trained individual does not need to be an employee of the processor.
Seafood HACCP training consists of 2 courses: Basic Segment 1 and Segment 2. In-person or online virtual courses are listed on the Seafood HACCP Alliance website under the Seafood HACCP Training Course Information.
