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Food And Drug Administration Regulation Of Food Safety, Lawrence O. Gostin, Katie F. Stewart
Food And Drug Administration Regulation Of Food Safety, Lawrence O. Gostin, Katie F. Stewart
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Food-borne illness remains a major public health challenge in the United States, causing an estimated 48 million illness episodes and 3000 deaths annually. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), enacted in 2011, gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new tools to regulate food safety. The act emphasizes prevention, enhanced recall authority, and oversight of imported food.
The FSMA brings the FDA’s food safety regulation in line with core tenets of public health by focusing on preventing outbreaks, rather than reacting to them, and differentiating between foods and food producers based on the degree of risk they pose. The …