date:May 07, 2014
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released its Operational Strategy for Implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The document lays out the agencys broad strategy for overseeing implementation of FSMAs new rules for food safety on farms and in facilities. The release of this report begins to answer the questions many in the produce industry have had about just how the FSMA rules will be implemented and verified.
In the document, FDA acknowledges the burgeonin