About the Leafy Green Guidelines "Community" Site

About the Leafy Green Guidelines "Community" Site

Western Growers (WG) is committed to supporting the ongoing improvement and maintenance of leafy green guidance documents utilized by the Marketing Agreements in California and Arizona. As result, WG has established this “community” site

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How can I get involved?

How can I get involved?

WG has established this “community” site to facilitate online discussions and enable a routine schedule and method for continued input from broad interests committed to improving and enhancing the preventive measures in the leafy greens guidance documents.

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How do I submit proposed changes and/or comments to the leafy green metrics?

Any proposed language changes, suggestions and comments will be accepted by email, fax and/or online following specific instructions (See Table 2). A word version of the sections under discussion will be sent to everyone in our distribution list. When proposed changes and comments are submitted through this website do the following:

  1. Select the document you will be using to propose changes or comments.
  2. Select the specific section you will be addressing to propose changes or comments.

January 2012 Update on the LGMA guidelines

• Six amendments to the LGMA leafy green guidelines were accepted
The Arizona LGMA Technical Subcommittee and the California LGMA Technical Committee reviewed the 17 proposals presented as a result of this vetting process during their meetings on January 10th and January 18th, respectively. Of these proposals, six were recommended for consideration as official amendments (please see attached document). Western Growers should be announcing a new comment period sometime in February.

• California LGMA guidelines have been updated

Summary of proposed changes is now available

The summary below contains all the proposals discussed last year, they are listed by proponent as “Recommended” or “Rejected” based on the discussions hosted November 21 and December 15, 2011. Of the 29 proposals received by Western Growers, 17 are being recommended through this process. This summary will be presented to the Arizona and California LGMA Technical Committees for consideration early this year. Only the proposals accepted by these committees will be reviewed by the California LGMA Advisory Board and the Arizona LGMA Marketing Committee respectively for final approval.

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