First bite: food safety gets collaborative: FDA lays collaborative groundwork to implement fundamental shift on food safety.
The Public Manager › Vol. 40 Nbr. 2, June 2011
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First bite: food safety gets collaborative: FDA lays collaborative groundwork to implement fundamental shift on food safety.
About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a significant public health burden that is largely preventable. That's why President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law on January 4, 2011. The Food and Drug Administration and others involved in the food safety system view FSMA as the most sweeping change in our food safety system since the 1930s.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New Standards Focus on Risk and Prevention The law codifies a fundamental shift in our food safety philosophy: * focusing FDA on prevention of food ri...See the full content of this document
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