New FDA Head Says Stricter Food Safety Enforcement Ahead

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According to a recent study by the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center public confidence in the safety of food supply in the United States is very low. Not a surprise given some of the notable food recalls earlier in the year and last year.

The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, M.D., says the agency is going to crack down on food manufacturing companies that don't follow food safety laws and regulations. Here is a link to her speech at the beginning of August: www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/ucm175983.htm.

Think she's serious? Does the FDA even have the means to enforce food safety laws and its own regulations?

Regardless if you are a company in the food manufacturing business are you doing everything you can to make sure your employees are trained in food safety and hygiene and that you are following the law and implementing strict food safety measures that go beyond what the law requires? After all, you are dealing with the public's health and well being, even their lives, when you manufacture and sell food.