date:Mar 07, 2013
The pilots, launched in 2011, were required by the Food Safety Modernization Act, which also requires FDA to establish recordkeeping requirements for high-risk foods to help in tracing products.
The pilots traced foods that had been implicated in previous foodborne illness outbreaks. One focused on chicken, peanuts and spices that are used in processed food; the other centered on tomatoes. The projects were designed to explore and demonstrate methods for rapid and effective tracing of food, inc