FDA's Taylor and Sklamberg Discuss FSMA in Light of PCA Convictions
Editor's Note: The following FDA Voice blog was written by Howard Sklamberg, deputy commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, and Michael Taylor, deputy commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine. Although the blog is ostensibly written for the general public, we thought both the officials' perspective and U.S. Department of Justice press release might be of interest to our readers.
Last Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, a federal jury in Georgia returned guilty verdicts against two former officials of and one broker for the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) in connection with practices that led to a 46-state outbreak of Salmonella poisoning in 2009. [Read the U.S. Department of Justice press release here.] While there were more than 700 reported cases, including nine deaths, epidemiological projections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the total number of illnesses at more than 22,000.