The USDA Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee will meet in-person April 19-20, the agency said.
The meeting will examine the “full spectrum of fruit and vegetable industry issues and provide recommendations and ideas on how USDA can tailor programs and services to better meet the needs of the U.S. produce industry,” the agency said in a Federal Register notice.
The notice said agenda items may include, but are not limited to, administrative matters, presentations by subject matter experts as requested by the FVIAC, and consideration of recommendations pertaining to labor and production, food safety, infrastructure and sustainability, consumption and nutrition, and data reporting and analysis.
The in-person meeting will be held April 19-20 from 9 a.m. to approximately 4 p.m. EST each day. In-person oral comments will be heard on Wednesday, April 19. The deadline to submit written comments and/or sign up for oral comments is April 3, the USDA said, via regulations.gov: Document #AMS-SC-23-0010.
The committee meeting will be held in Room 107-A of the Whitten Building at 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C.
The USDA is giving notice of the committee meeting to the public so that they may participate and present their views via written comments. The meeting is open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis, and space is limited.
The meeting agenda will be made available online.
