The FDA has faced tough opposition in the industry in implementing laws geared towards improving food safety within the nation. Earlier this month the agency was the recipient of a letter from the United Fresh Produce Association asking for the comment period on a number of new food safety laws to be extended.
The association, which described itself as a frontrunner of change and growth in the industry, pushed for the delay that will affect the implementation of the Food Safety and Modernization Act. It was stated in the letter that the time set by the agency was not enough for thorough analysis of the new law, thought to be quite bulky.
Roy Blunt, Missouri’s senator, said that the 120 days comment period could hardly be compared to the two years that the agency took to draft the new law. In response, the agency agreed to push forward the deadline, extending the period for another four months.
The act was approved in Congress after numerous outbreaks were witnessed in 2010 and was signed into law in 2011. It wasn’t until the beginning of this year that the Office of Management and Budget released the two new rules so that they could be published.
Sarah Klein, an attorney at the Centre for Science in the Public interest, pointed out the comment period was unusually long for a law that was already behind on schedule. Though stricter rules are something that those involved in the food industry all realised needed to be established, some of them have not shown total commitment to the act that is meant to transform the industry.
The two rules that have faced a lot of opposition, propose new production standards for fruit and vegetable farms, as wells as manufacturers.
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