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FDA's FMSA Priorities Are Facility Controls, Produce, Foreign Verification, Certification

The Food and Drug Administration's Michael Taylor, who is Deputy Commissioner for Foods, stated in a recent speech in China that FDA will be prioritizing the following four Food Safety Modernization Act's provisions in the coming months: preventive control standards…

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for food and feed facilities, produce safety standards, foreign supplier verification, and accredited third-party certification. This is because together - preventive controls for facilities and farms and the requirement that importers verify that products entering the U.S. comply with the preventive controls through third party auditing and certification - establish the central core of the regulatory framework envisioned by FSMA.