FDA Releases 2018 Strategic Policy Roadmap

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a strategic policy roadmap for 2018 identifying four primary areas on which the agency will focus this year: (i) combating addiction; (ii) improving public health; (iii) ensuring consumers are better-informed about diet, health and nutrition; and (iv) strengthening the agency’s workforce and upgrading its technological resources.

In an effort to “use nutrition to reduce morbidity and mortality from disease,” FDA has indicated that it will “take new steps in 2018 to implement a comprehensive plan, incorporating a range of new efforts, to leverage dietary information to reduce the burden of disease through nutrition and encourage the development of more healthful food options.”