FDA Takes Important Steps in Modernizing the Food Safety System

Moves to implement FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to further protect consumers from foodborne illness

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2015. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today took one of the most significant steps in decades to prevent foodborne illness by finalizing the first two of seven major rules under the bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

Today’s action is the first step in putting greater emphasis on the prevention of foodborne illness,…