FDA Seeks Comments on New Produce Safety Proposals
By Dorothy Noble
On January 4, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed the two food safety rules that FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg recognized as the first concrete step toward implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). In the first FSMA public meeting on February 28, 2013, Hamburg said, "They really lay the foundation for a modern, science-based food safety system that will work to prevent foodborne illness, including the large-scale outbreaks of the type that have so plagued our nation in recent years."
Annually, foodborne illness sickens one in six ...
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