The Food and Drug Administration missed a Jan. 4 deadline to issue produce safety regulations, as mandated by sweeping changes to food safety laws. The date marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s signing the Food Safety Modernization Act into law. Congress set the deadline for the FDA to issue updated good agricultural practices.
Despite some rumors that the FDA would make a big splash and introduce several regulations that day, the deadline came and went, although the agency released an update on food safety act work done in the last year. “Once Jan. 4 passed, every day could be (that day),” said Kathy Means, vice president of government relations and public affairs for Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association. Read more here.
