FDA Sets Forth Rules to Improve Food Safety

Abstract

Early in January, officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new sets of food safety rules aimed at curbing foodborne illnesses. Those rules, which are open for comment through early April, will be used in implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011, a landmark piece of legislation that grants increased authority to FDA to lay out and then enforce food safety measures (Microbe, March 2011, p. 108).