The Food and Drug Administration is offering several resources to help people understand and follow a proposed rule that requires more traceability recordkeeping for certain produce.
The proposed Food Traceability rule would carry out part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, according to a news release.
The first resource is a tool for exploring the results of the risk-ranking model for food tracing used in the development of the Food Traceability List.
In the tool, users can learn more about the methods and criteria used to score commodity-hazard pairs, and the results of that scoring which was used to determine which foods to include on the Food Traceability List.
The FDA has also released a pre-recorded webinar featuring Frank Yiannas, deputy commissioner for food policy and response, and Angela Fields, a traceability expert with FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network.
During the presentation, they discuss the benefits of the proposed rule, who would be subject to the rule, what the proposed key requirements are and exemptions.
There is also a “who is subject to the rule?” flowchart and a key terms glossary.
The FDA will host virtual public meetings to discuss the proposed rule Nov. 18 and Dec. 2.
Learn more and register at this meeting page.
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