Food safety regulation shoes keep dropping

摘要

In the world of food safety, the other shoe dropped in January. One of them, anyway. Can you use the expression "waiting for the other shoe to drop" when there's going to be more than two shoes? When FDA finally burst forth in January with its months-overdue proposed regulations on food maker Good Manufacturing Practices, especially their 'preventive controls,' and a separate proposal on produce handling, the event was a mere way-station on a rule-making process that started with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in early 2011. The process will continue with collection of public comments until May 16, publication of the final version of the rules, and finally, effectiveness of the rules in a series of steps over the years following the final rule's publication.