Updated by Julia Belluz on September 10, 2015, 12:30 p.m. ET @juliaoftoronto julia.belluz@voxmedia.com
In 2011, President Obama signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Modernization Act, the most sweeping reform of the food safety system in more than 70 years.
The law included seven major regulations that needed to be finalized, the first two of which the FDA passed today — four years later. So this means part of the law will finally be implemented starting now.
In the past, the food industry was only required to react to outbreaks of food poisoning. One in six Americans get sick from their food every year, and health officials have traced terrible and deadly outbreaks of food poisoning to everything from caramel apples to peanuts and cheese in recent months.
The two finalized regulations published this morning on the Federal Register — the Preventive Controls for Human Food and Preventive Controls for Animal Food — will shift the industry into prevention mode, forcing manufacturers to take measures that stop outbreaks before they happen.
There are still five other regulations that need to be made final, most of which are expected to pass over the next year. They do things like improve the safety of produce on farms and ensure better oversight of imported food.
Read more
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9301809/food-drug-administration-food-safety-modernization-act
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