Food Bill Aims to Improve Safety
While FDA is charged with regulating almost all food products, the legislation also recognizes that food safety is a responsibility shared among U.S., state, local, territorial, tribal, and foreign food safety agencies. This new legislation clearly endorses the efforts already underway among FDA and our regulatory partners toward creating a truly integrated food safety system
Dr. Hamburg says the new law represents a critical step in strengthening the U.S. food safety system but acknowledges challenges in achieving full implementation as the legislation did not include sufficient fee resources to cover the costs of the new requirements. The commissioner says: "We ask Congress, industry and other stakeholders to work with us to ensure that FDA has sufficient fee resources to achieve our shared food safety and food defense goals."
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Updates page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
Posted December 23, 2010
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