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Will FDA’s New Food Import Programs Make Food Safer?
By Brandon Neuschafer , Food Safety News Sep 15, 2015
First, the statistics. At the time that President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law in 2011, the United States imported about 15-20 percent of its domestic food supply, and as many as 70 percent of the food importers were small companies. Since FSMA was passed, the amount of food imported on an annual basis has increased more than 10 percent.
At the same time, numbers developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and cited by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicate that 48 million people (one in six) get sick each year from foodborne illnesses and that 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from such illnesses. FDA believes that many of these cases of illness and death are preventable.
When one combines these illness numbers with the expanding market for food imports, the concern for safety becomes more pronounced. Current import rules generally only require that a foreign facility, where food is manufactured, processed, packed or held, be registered with FDA, that prior notice of the food import be provided to import officials, and that the product otherwise comply with U.S. laws, such as labeling laws. A gap can be created, though, where there is difficulty in effecting the monitoring and inspection of foreign facilities.
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