Collaboration, integration key to food safety goals
Food Safety Summit (FSS) 2015 attendees found collaboration and integration to be the watchwords for FDA’s strengthening of relationships among government organizations (federal, state and local) and other stakeholders in food safety.
Sponsored by the Association of Food & Drug Officials (AFDO), FSS sessions (“Integrating the Nation’s Food Safety System Forum”) focused on FSMA’s mandate to FDA—an Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS)—and featured FDA speakers and representatives from state and local governments. Other AFDO-sponsored sessions revealed industry and consumer concerns about the new FSMA regulations and their implementation.