Executive Summary

FDA's Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition is seeking comments from the public on what program priorities it should consider setting for 2007, the agency announces in a Federal Register notice published June 29. The input will be used to develop the center's 2007 workplan. A similar strategy was used to develop CFSAN's 2006 program priorities, which were published in May (1"The Tan Sheet" May 8, 2006, p. 10). To establish the 2006 goals, CFSAN asked, "Where do we do the most good for consumers and the overall public health?" the notice states. The 2007 plan will be divided into five sections: nutrition, dietary supplement safety, food defense, food safety and cosmetic safety...