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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011. The FSMA has given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency had ...
FSMA-compliant Hazard Analyses address radiological hazards in addition to the chemical, biological and physical hazards covered by HACCP systems. [16] FSMA explicitly requires a Food Defense component, with both terrorism and Economically Motivated Adulteration addressed. Businesses with less than $10,000,000 a year in sales are exempt.
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN (/ ˈ s ɪ f ˌ s æ n / SIF-san)) is the branch of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that regulates food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics, as opposed to drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products, which also fall under the purview of the FDA.
Charges against the owner were filled, and six months later, a law called the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 was signed. This law forced all new food, drugs, and cosmetics to be certified by the FDA before being put on the market. [17] This act granted the FDA with enforcing and legal power that has helped regulate food and drugs ever since.
This law reviewed, expanded, and reaffirmed several existing pieces of legislation regulating the FDA. These changes allow the FDA to perform more comprehensive reviews of potential new drugs and devices. [1] It was sponsored by Reps. Joe Barton and Frank Pallone and passed unanimously by the Senate. [2]
FSMA may refer to: Ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy , a type of shape memory material which responds to magnetic fields Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 , a UK law that created the Financial Services Authority
The United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (abbreviated as FFDCA, FDCA, or FD&C) is a set of laws passed by the United States Congress in 1938 giving authority to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee the safety of food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics.
The primary international agency with a focus on food policy is the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, established in 1945 with four express purposes: to improve nutrition and living standards in member nations, improve the efficiency of production and distribution of all food and agricultural products, better the conditions of rural populations, and expand the ...