IFT Comments on FDA’s Food Protection Plan

On July 31, 2008, the Institute of Food Technologists sent comments and recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration on its recently announced Food Protection Plan (Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0188). Following is a synopsis of the comments; a complete full-text version is available online at www.ift.org. IFT agrees in general with the plan’s core elements of Prevention, Intervention, and Response. To strengthen the plan, IFT recommends that the FDA:

• Seek to achieve the overarching goal of safe…