Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., the Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was the Keynote speaker at the 2022 Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences' (IAFNS') Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. In her presentation, Dr. Mayne discussed the direction for, and challenges facing, FDA and CFSAN.
The ten-year anniversary of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) took place in 2021, at which point FDA evaluated the impact and progress of FSMA. Dr. Mayne stated that, because of FSMA, the thought process around food safety has shifted to a preventive approach across the entire domestic supply chain.