FDA requires faster food safety reporting
As a personal injury lawyer, I am pleased to see the new rule governing food safety, which regulators say "will help the FDA prevent widespread illness from contaminated products and direct inspectors to plants that pose a greater safety concern.”
The new rule aims to help federal regulators identify food contamination issues sooner, and requires food makers "to alert government officials of potentially contaminated products within 24 hours” (AP for FindLaw, 9/8). To aid in this new process, “the Food and Drug Administration unveiled a new electronic database where manufacturers must notify the government if one of their products is likely to cause sickness or death in people or animals.” Congress passed the law creating the database in 2007 after widespread criticism about the FDA's handling of several food safety incidents.
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