FDA Introduces Faster, Easier Reportable Food Registry Process
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new, interactive public data dashboard that will allow its constituents to view historical data from the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), a tool that the food industry uses to alert FDA of a dangerous food product. The new dashboard will be updated annually and make it faster and easier to get better data from the RFR. The RFR program will help FDA's state and local partners better determine when to issue health alerts, take steps to remove harmful food from the market, and target enforcement efforts, such as sampling assignments.
The new RFR public data dashboard contains 10 years of data, from September 2009 to September 2019, and covers 28 commodities and 20 food safety hazards. Unlike past RFR annual reports previously used to publish data, the new dashboard allows users to interact with the data points to gather more customized information at any time to find answers to their specific questions. Users can modify the graphs and charts and view trends based on selected commodities, hazards, and time frames. The dashboard is available as part of the FDA-TRACK program, the FDA's agency-wide performance management system.