USDA Now Accepting Applications for Vendors for 2022 USDA Farmers Market

The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications from farmers, growers, and other producers for its 2022 farmers market season that opens Friday, May 6, 2022. Farmers, growers and producers located in Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and preferably within a 200-mile radius of the District of Columbia, are encouraged to apply.

AMS Adds Peanuts Exported to European Union to the Laboratory Approval Program for Analysis of Aflatoxins

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today the addition of testing peanuts that are destined for the European Union (EU) to the Laboratory Approval Program for Analysis of Aflatoxins (LAP-Aflatoxin) at the request of the American Peanut Council (APC). The addition will ensure peanuts destined for the EU meet testing requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 401/2006. Laboratories must be approved under the LAP-Aflatoxin to provide aflatoxin testing for peanuts destined for the EU, effective January 24, 2022.

Pilot Project for the Procurement of Unprocessed Fruits and Vegetables USDA & State Agency Contact Information

USDA

For general pilot-related questions:
UnprocessedFVPilot@fns.usda.gov

Linda Hubeny, Program Analyst
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Linda.Hubeny@fns.usda.gov
(703) 305-7518

Janet West, Senior Program Analyst
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Janet.West@fns.usda.gov
(703) 305-2671

For vendor and invoice-related questions:

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