From: DC Velocity "FDA Classifies Brokers as Shippers in Final Rules on Food Transport Safety"

Brokers oppose the language, but say they are prepared to play the cards they've been dealt.

By Mark B. Solomon

The mantra of U.S. freight brokers is that they're not shippers. Brokers arrange the transportation of their customers' goods. But the freight belongs to somebody else, and brokers never touch the shipments or the equipment used to haul them.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has other ideas. In publishing its long-awaited final rules last Tuesday on the sanitary transportation of human and animal food, the agency did what the brokers asked it not to do: Classify them as shippers.

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