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Food and feed companies must report to FDA

Food and feed manufacturers in the US must now swiftly report foods that might cause “severe health problems or death to a person or animal” to the Food & Drug Administration. Under the new law, they must report to the FDA’s new, electronic Reportable Food Registry (RFR) within 24 hours of finding a “reasonable probability that an article of food” in their facilities puts consumers at risk. Michael Taylor is senior advisor to the FDA commissioner, “It begins moving us further down toward the first principle of the president’s Food Safety Working Group which iss to prevent harm to consumers in the first place. That’s our first priority in the first place, to prevent food safety problems.”The reporting requirement applies to food and animal feed makers regulated by the FDA – but not to farmers. However, Taylor says the FDA can require manufacturers to notify suppliers of the food or feed and those to whom it had shipped the product. Responsible parties are not required to report if they found the problem “before the food was shipped, and corrected the problem or destroyed the food.”

Previously, there was no requirement that food and feed companies promptly report their internal or third-party test results indicating contamination or other problems to the FDA. Taylor says this will allow the FDA and its partners to work with companies to solve the problems -reducing the risk to consumers.

 Food & Drug Administration – on RFR

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