CFSAN 2014 Goals Include FSMA Enforcement, Targeting Pathogens
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Nutrition will focus on meeting and enforcing FSMA mandates in 2014, including ensuring food facilities re-register biannually, improving federal-state partnerships and exercising more registration suspension, administrative detention and mandatory recall. It also will root out resident pathogens and seek criminal charges more often in adulteration cases, an FDA official says.
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