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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 ...
The Government Accountability Office released findings this week that analyzed the FDA’s compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act, which includes annual targets for the agency’s ...
Recent legislation regarding food safety includes the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law on January 4, 2011, by Barack Obama. [8] This sweeping reform of food safety law shifted the FDA's focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. [9]
Signed in 2010, the FSMA focuses on preventing food safety problems and acknowledges how harmful foodborne illnesses can be to communities. One rule in FSMA requires farm workers who handle ...
2004- Food allergy Labeling act requires companies to label foods with peanuts, soybeans, cows milk, eggs, fish, tree nuts, wheat, and shellfish; 2011 - Food Safety Modernization Act (Pub. L. 111–353 (text)) CFSAN publishes the "Bad Bug Book", which provides information about the microorganisms that cause foodborne illness. [9]
Hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls or HARPC is a successor to the Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) food safety system, mandated in the United States by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2010.
In 2011 the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) produced what is considered the most significant food safety legislation in over 70 years. The significant difference between this and previous acts was that it shifted to focus from response and containment of food-borne disease outbreaks to their prevention.
The following year, former President Barack Obama signed into law the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which authorized $12.6 million in annual funds for childhood disease research ...