The Pilot Traceability Project was announced as of last week. This project is intended to provide a structure for tracing ingredients back to their source in the event of a recall.   In the wake of recent recalls the progress of implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has […]

Earlier this year, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) (P.L. 111-353), a law that will overhaul U.S. food safety for the first time since the Great Depression.   The legislation passed in response to a growing public concern about the integrity of both local and imported […]

Threats to our food supply are real. The Food Safety Modernization Act hopes to mitigate the risk to Americans. HOW CAN FOOD PACKAGING OPERATIONS COPE with the added burden of regulatory requirements? The most sweeping change to U.S. food safety laws in 70 years was enacted on Jan. 4, 2011, […]