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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported progress on ensuring the safety of food imported from Mexico.

Considerations for how ingredients will be sourced, inspected, segregated, and processed may impact the quality and safety of the finished product. It is important for food product developers to consult not only their procurement partners but also their food safety and quality partners to use ingredients from reliable and trustworthy suppliers from the beginning.  

Is there a better way to think through preventing problems from reoccurring in the future than by understanding why they happened in the first place?  

The harmonization of food legislation helps ensure the availability of safe and quality food using widely accepted standards that facilitate the movement of food between countries without arbitrary legal constraints or unjustifiably inequities.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) second podcast in its new series will air in August 2021 and address whole-genome sequencing.