Fruits & Vegetables :: Are You Ready for Food-Safety Reform?
Health-care reform may have bumped national food-safety legislation from the top of Congress’s agenda in 2009, but the food industry can expect a new push in 2010 to enact laws aimed at strengthening the U.S. food-protection system. Although it could be another year before regulations are promulgated, a number of additional federal efforts to modernize the nation’s food-safety system are already taking shape. For companies that manufacture, serve, distribute and sell food, preparing for food-safety reform should be at the top of the 2010 to-do list.PEANUTS POWER REFORMOver the past few years, a series of high-profile, nationwide foodborne illness outbreaks ...
