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Enhancing Food Safety - The Role of the Food and Drug Administration (Paperback)
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Enhancing Food Safety - The Role of the Food and Drug Administration (Paperback)
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Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and
lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for
monitoring problems and preventing foodborne diseases. Although it
is not solely responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's
food supply, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees
monitoring and intervention for 80 percent of the food supply. The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration's abilities to discover potential
threats to food safety and prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness
are hampered by impediments to efficient use of its limited
resources and a piecemeal approach to gathering and using
information on risks. Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food
and Drug Administration, a new book from the Institute of Medicine
and the National Research Council, responds to a congressional
request for recommendations on how to close gaps in FDA's food
safety systems. Enhancing Food Safety begins with a brief review of
the Food Protection Plan (FPP), FDA's food safety philosophy
developed in 2007. The lack of sufficient detail and specific
strategies in the FPP renders it ineffectual. The book stresses the
need for FPP to evolve and be supported by the type of strategic
planning described in these pages. It also explores the development
and implementation of a stronger, more effective food safety system
built on a risk-based approach to food safety management.
Conclusions and recommendations include adopting a risk-based
decision-making approach to food safety; creating a data
surveillance and research infrastructure; integrating federal,
state, and local government food safety programs; enhancing
efficiency of inspections; and more. Although food safety is the
responsibility of everyone, from producers to consumers, the FDA
and other regulatory agencies have an essential role. In many
instances, the FDA must carry out this responsibility against a
backdrop of multiple stakeholder interests, inadequate resources,
and competing priorities. Of interest to the food production
industry, consumer advocacy groups, health care professionals, and
others, Enhancing Food Safety provides the FDA and Congress with a
course of action that will enable the agency to become more
efficient and effective in carrying out its food safety mission in
a rapidly changing world. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary
Part I: Setting the Stage for Understanding and Improving the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration's Role in the Food Safety System 1
Introduction 2 The Food Safety System: Context and Current Status
Part II: Toward a Stronger and More Effective Food Safety System 3
Adopting a Risk-Based Decision-Making Approach to Food Safety 4
Sharing the Responsibility for a Risk-Based System: Models of
Governance and Oversight Part III: Implementation of the New Food
Safety System 5 Creating an Integrated Information Infrastructure
for a Risk-Based Food Safety System 6 Creating a Research
Infrastructure for a Risk-Based Food Safety System 7 Integrating
Federal, State, and Local Government Food Safety Programs 8
Enhancing the Efficiency of Inspections 9 Improving Food Safety and
Risk Communication 10 Modernizing Legislation to Enhance the U.S.
Food Safety System 11 Achieving the Vision of an Efficient
Risk-Based Food Safety System Appendix A: Workshop Agendas Appendix
B: Past Recommendations About the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's Food Safety Program Appendix C: Food Safety
Systems in the United States and Other Countries Appendix D: The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Defense Program Appendix
E: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Imported Food Safety
Appendix F: Food Safety Research at Intramural and Extramural U.S.
Food and Drug Administration Research Centers, by Topic Appendix G:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Protection Plan Appendix H:
Glossary Appendix I: Acronyms and Abbreviations Appendix J:
Committee Member Biographical Sketches
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