date:Oct 13, 2012
modernizing the food safety system.
Of the seven food-safety regulations cited in the lawsuit, FDA sent several to OMB for review in November and December 2011. The Center for Food Safety and Center for Environmental Health maintain the government agency still hasn't send the rules back to the FDA in spite of a 90-day deadline and the public record at OMB corroborates those assertions.
Deadlines imposed by FSMA clearly have been missed. For instance, one rule designed to help improve the safet