Food quality assurance-lack of preventive controls in food processing and preparation operations

Abstract

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and associated regulations, is the most sweeping reform of the food safety regulatory system in the USA in more than 70 years. The FSMA confirms the primary role of the food manufacturing industry in assuring food safety, requires the food industry to conduct risk-based hazard analysis and implement preventive controls to minimize identified hazards, and applies to domestic as well as imported foods.