Reefer monitoring for food safety & profitability

摘要

According to a strategy document issued May 2014 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), planning has begun for the next phase of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation. The act shifts the focus of how the United States regulates the safety of its food supply from responding to food safety issues reactively to a proactive approach of preventing problems from occurring in the first place. The act directs the FDA to establish standards for the adoption of modern food safety practices by those who grow, process, transport and store food. The document reinforces that the food industry is primarily responsible for food safety and for managing "operations and supply chains in a manner that provides documented assurances that appropriate preventive measures are being implemented as a matter of routine practice every day."