Only two more Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules remain to be finalized. Final rules for Sanitary Transportation and Intentional Adulteration are due out next spring. But with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) release last week of final FSMA rules on Produce Safety, Foreign Supplier Verification, and Accredited Third Party Verification, long-sought reform has become reality. It was a different time in 2010 when a bipartisan Congress adopted the biggest change in food safety regulation in the past century. But “making it so” has consumed five years. All the FSMA rule-making has seen extensive public involvement, and some of it received multiple rounds of public comment.
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