When you read the regulations FDA made to give effect to the Food Safety Modernization Act, it's hard to avoid one overwhelming thought: Food safety is important, sure, and prevention is better than chasing after problems, but gee whiz, there has to be a better way, or at least a less complicated way. FDA made the regulations to implement a law, so if you think the whole thing is overdone, the blame might fall on Congress, which made the law. And FDA commonly explains that they made rules the way they did by saying the law requires it, or doesn't permit one or another exemption. Either way, though, these rules just seem overdone, especially for small and midsized companies that aren't exempted due to their size.
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