Title Enhancing food safety : the role of the Food and Drug Administration / Committee on the Review of Food and Drug Administration's Role in Ensuring Safe Food, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources ; Robert B. Wallace and Maria Oria, editors

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 576 pages) : illustrations Series Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf Contents The food safety system : context and current status -- Adopting a risk-based decision-making approach to food safety -- Sharing the responsibility for a risk-based system : models of governance and oversight -- Creating an integrated information infrastructure for a risk-based food safety system -- Creating a research infrastructure for a risk-based food safety system -- Integrating federal, state, and local government food safety programs -- Enhancing the efficiency of inspections -- Improving food safety and risk communication -- Modernizing legislation to enhance the U.S. food safety system -- Achieving the vision of an efficient risk-based food safety system Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject United States. Food and Drug Administration. SUBJECT United States. Food and Drug Administration fast Subject Food -- Safety measures -- Government policy -- United States Food -- Safety regulations -- United States Food supply. Medical policy. Risk assessment. Food Supply Food Contamination -- prevention & control Health Policy Resource Allocation Risk Assessment United States Government Agencies food availability food contamination health policy resource allocation risk assessment risk assessment. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety. Risk assessment Medical policy Food supply Food -- Safety regulations SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Wallace, Robert B., 1942- Oria, Maria Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Review of Food and Drug Administration's Role in Ensuring Safe Food. LC no. 2010029845 ISBN 9780309152747 0309152747 1282917013 9781282917019 9786612917011 6612917016 9780309163583 0309163587

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