Finding your way to information and resources you need can be difficult when you are a food processor. Where you go depends on your product, your process, and your facility.
| If you… | Then, go here. |
| want to start a food processing business | |
| need information on labeling
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| make juice or cider | |
| are a farmer and process jams, jellies, pickles, acidified foods, honey and maple syrup | |
| process seafood | |
| want to process milk, cheese or other dairy products | |
| need to register your facility with FDA | |
| want to know more about the Food Safety Modernization Act | |
| slaughter or process meat and poultry | |
| slaughter or process non-amenable meats and birds (FDA is responsible for bison, rabbits, game animals, zoo animals and all members of the deer family including elk (wapiti) and moose and wild turkeys, wild ducks, and wild geese) | |
| process poultry under an FSIS exemption | |
| need to find a laboratory to test well water or food laboratories
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