The US has introduced a new food safety law that will provide the Food and Drug Administration with new powers to crackdown on food producers and production processs.
US President Barack Obama signed the food safety bill into law last Tuesday 4 January.
The law will allow the FDA to conduct more inspections and will require producers to have written risk-management plans. It will also require importers to check the safety of imported products, and excludes foreign producers who refuse FDA inspections. The FDA will also have new powers to inspect producers’ records and to order a recall of a product in cases where a food poisoning incident occurs.