Apr 1, 2015 | Foods, FSMA Perspective
FDA officials discussed their “work in progress” toward implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act at a public meeting hosted by the agency in Washington, D.C. April 23-24, 2015. The agency is currently considering some new inspection ideas, they explained....
Apr 1, 2015 | Foods, FSMA Perspective
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, who retired as FDA Commissioner late last month, discussed the agency’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) budget in her final appearance before a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, March 4. Mindful of...
Mar 1, 2015 | Foods, FSMA Perspective
FDA needs to adequately staff its foreign offices – where 44 percent of positions were vacant as of October 2014 — to fulfill its inspection mandate under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to a newly released report by the Government...
Jan 1, 2015 | Foods, FSMA Perspective
The December 15 comment deadline on FDA’s re-proposed rule on Preventive Controls for Animal Food has come and gone. Stakeholders generally welcomed the supplemental proposal as an improvement on the original proposed rule. But further significant changes are...
Oct 1, 2014 | Foods, FSMA Perspective
The Food and Drug Administration’s supplemental texts for four proposed rules that would implement provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), published September 29 in the Federal Register, address numerous concerns raised by stakeholders. The...
