The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4th, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus of federal regulators from responding to contamination to preventing it.
The FDA introduced a new web-based recall search engine that makes it easier and quicker to learn about product recalls. The search results provide data from news releases and other recall announcements in the form of a table. That table organizes information from news releases on recalls since 2009 by date, product brand name, product description, reason for the recall and the recalling firm. The news releases were chosen as the source of information for the table because they provide the most up-to-date and user friendly information about any recall.
The government-wide FoodSafety.gov web site provides a widget that displays the latest recalls and food safety alerts from both FDA and USDA.
Check out these titles from the library:
- How to prevent food poisoning: a practical guide to safe cooking, eating, and food handling by Elizabeth Scott
- Is our food safe?: a consumer’s guide to protecting your health and the environment by Leon Warren
- Swindled: the dark history of food fraud, from poisoned candy to counterfeit coffee by Bee Wilson
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