The largest American food safety update in 70 years will be complete by spring 2016.
February 21, 2014
Seven separate rules will be designed to shift the national food safety net from a system geared to respond to illness outbreaks to one designed to prevent them.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued instructions to its inspection program personnel in an effort to protect vulnerable consumers after an increased number of products have been recalled in the first half of 2011 due to the presence of undeclared allergens or other ingredients.
