Food Traceability Rule One Year Away
Looming over the IFMA The Food Away from Home Association’s 2024 Presidents Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday, was a simple question:
Will there be more time to comply with FMSA?
FSMA, or the Food Safety Modernization Act, was adopted in 2011 (though not final until 2022) and includes the Food Traceability Rule (known as FSMA 204), which essentially requires the entire food chain to create a data tracking system for tracing certain foods from the farm to table to allow federal regulators to quickly identify and pull any contaminated product that could cause foodborne illness. Businesses must be able to provide information to the FDA within 24 hours, in the event of an outbreak.https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/more-time-needed-comply-looming-food-traceability-rules
