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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="16-102" title_number="16" title_name="Maryland Produce Safety Program" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Maryland Produce Safety Program in the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Program is to reduce the risk of adverse impacts on human health from the consumption of contaminated produce.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Program shall conform with the federal standards for growing, harvesting, packing, and holding produce for human consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary shall administer and enforce the Program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Delegate the Secretary’s authority to enforce the standards for sprouts established under 21 C.F.R. Part 112, Subpart M, to the Secretary of Health;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Grant a qualified exemption to a farm; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>On notice and opportunity to be heard, and in accordance with 21 C.F.R. Part 112, Subpart R, suspend or revoke a qualified exemption granted to a farm by the Secretary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
