The Food and Drug Administration introduced earlier this year a modernization initiative—deemed “A New Era of Food Safety”—to advance its use of evolving technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence to better trace America’s food supply and provide more rapid responses to outbreaks of foodborne illness. This week, FDA announced that the next step on its journey to innovation will be a full-day event through which the public will help plan out its blueprint and provide feedback on the agency’s implementation of the new approach.
“The New Era of Smarter Food Safety will enhance the agency’s ongoing efforts to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act by creating a more digital, traceable, and safer system to help protect consumers from contaminated food,” officials said in a public meeting notice published in the Federal Register Wednesday. “The purpose of this meeting is to foster a dialogue with our domestic and international regulatory and public health partners, industry, consumers, academia, and others.”
Since FSMA was signed into law eight years ago, the agency said it’s established necessary science- and risk-based standards and regulations around the production and transportation of the nation’s critical food resources. It’s also leveraged budding technological tools, including whole genome sequencing, to enhance its food safety practices.
“However, a lot has changed since 2011,” the agency said. “When it comes to food traceability, many in the food system still utilize a largely paper-based system of taking one step forward to i ..
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