Imported Food Safety Target of IOM Meeting
The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Food and Nutrition Board has announced a
June 7, 2011, meeting that will focus on the safety of imported foods “with the
purposed of engaging science, technology, and policy personnel representing
the global food supply chain, government agencies, and academia.”
Titled “Food Forum Meeting on Supply Chain and Policy/Regulatory
Approaches to Import Safety,” the meeting will include a morning panel
featuring actors representing the supply chain “from producer to retailer/food
service provider” and an afternoon panel of government officials representing
“governance processes from the state to global level.”
By focusing on the Food and Drug Administration’s new authority granted
under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), including “importer
accountability, third party certification, certification for high risk foods, voluntary qualified importer program, and authority to deny entry,” the meeting aims to “provide perspectives and ideas useful for the development
and implementation of the multifaceted import tools available in FSMA,”
according to IOM.
