Last week, the International Association for Food Protection’s (IAFP) Annual Meeting was held in Louisville, KY. Among all of the sessions focusing on the Food Safety Modernization Act, preventive controls, microbiological contamination, foodborne outbreaks and the like, the U.S. Regulatory Update on Food Safety provided a much anticipated brief on what’s happening behind the scenes.
Frank Yiannas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, spoke on modernizing the agency’s approach to food safety.