“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…’”
“Throughout the initiative, FDA will consider technology like distributed ledgers and internet of things sensors, along with innovative e-commerce approaches that are being implemented across the global nutritional landscape, to evaluate how it can build off of the emerging techniques to bring more transparency and safety to the food humans consume in an increasingly interconnected world…” Read the full article here.
Source: FDA Unveils Next Step on its Journey to Develop a Safer Food System – Brandi Vincent, September 19, 2019. Nextgov.
