Enhancing food safety the role of the food and drug administration
Providing nutritious, abundant, and safe food requires the efforts of many partners that together make up today's complex and evolving food system. Since 1906, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its predecessor agencies have regulated foods, among other products. Today the agency has oversight of approximately 80 percent of the U.S. food supply. Although there have been prior efforts to identify needed improvements in food safety, recent multistate foodborne illness outbreaks have again highlighted a food safety system that is not always effective in protecting the public health. The FDA has been criticized as responding only reactively to food safety problems and neglecting its preventive functions. With these concerns in mind, in 2008 Congress requested that the FDA contract with the National Academies for a comprehensive study of gaps in the FDA's food safety system. While the responsibility for addressing these challenges does not lie solely with the FDA, the focus of this report is on enhancing that agency's food programs, specifically those devoted to food safety.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States National Academies Press
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| Subjects: | Alimentos, Medidas de seguridad, Política pública, Administracion de drogas, Abastecimiento de alimentos, Contaminación de alimentos, Política de salud, Medicina preventiva, |
| Online Access: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12892 |
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