The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new video series, titled, Into the Dataverse, which focuses on how the agency is modernizing its use of data, part of the New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint. The first video provides an overview of 21 Forward, a data analytics tool that monitors the food supply chain.
Robust food traceability systems serve several roles in advancing foodsafety and sustainability.Traceability systems are inherently collaborative and require allmembersofa product supply chain to collect, store, and share data.
On Monday afternoon at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) provided U.S. regulatory updates on food safety.