The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (P.L. 111-353)

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Product safety.

Small business.

Vitamins.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Describes P.L. 111-353, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which alters current food safety system and increases spending to better meet current obligations to protect consumers from unsafe food. Covers provisions regarding registration, record-keeping, hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls, performance standards, on-farm safety standards, mitigating effects on small business and farming operations, targeting of inspections, use of third parties for imports and for laboratory accreditation, mandatory recall authority, product tracing, foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response, criminal penalties, dietary supplements, food imports, and paying for food safety with user fees. Provides side-by-side comparisons of provisions in P.L. 111-353 and previous law

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division. FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (P.L. 111-353)

Publisher Number:

CRS-2011-RSI-0158

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