Industry experts share regulatory guidelines impacting R&D; new tech for texture and product development
February 15, 2016
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed by President Obama (January 4th, 2011), gives the FDA new regulatory authority. Its ultimate goal is to provide more uniform food safety standards.
On January 4, 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law historic food safety legislation—the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The law has two major themes: prevention and accountability. Prevention means food companies need to have controls in place during manufacturing to assure the safety of their products and to prevent problems (not just react to them after the fact).
On January 4, 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law historic food safety legislation--the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a law with two major themes: prevention and accountability.
The FDA is implementing the most sweeping reforms of the nation’s food safety rules in over 70 years, which has led to an influx of comments from the industry and the public. Through mid-January, FDA had already received 614 comments on various aspects of the proposed regulations, according to The Food Institute.
Challenging conventional wisdom that most people want smaller government and less expensive food, a U.S. survey indicates most would pay more for safer food.
Distrust between the food industry and consumers is growing, according to a recently released Deloitte survey providing one of the first measures of how the public feels about new food safety legislation.