The Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act is approaching its third birthday in January and the dairy industry, state regulatory agencies and some of FDA’s staff are still uncertain as to what FSMA is all about.
When signed by President Obama on Jan. 4, 2011, news stories popularized the notion that FSMA would significantly shrink this statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: approximately 1 out of 6 Americans are victims of food poisoning every year.