Food Recalls in the Digital Age

The recent one-two punch of the peanut and pistachio recalls, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declarations that it will be markedly more assertive, drive home the need for food companies to adopt vastly improved “pre-crisis” response planning.

As the FDA’s Associate Commissioner for foods recently told The New York Times, “The food industry needs to be on notice that the FDA is going to be much more proactive and move things far faster …. We’re going to try to stop people from gettin…