FDA launches food safety dashboard to track FSMA progress
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven foundational rules of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), measure their progress, and help the agency continue to refine its implementation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven foundational rules of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), measure their progress, and help the agency continue to refine its implementation. The dashboard is available as part of the FDA-TRACK program, the FDA’s agency-wide performance management system.
The FDA is announcing the availability of the initial metrics that begin to track outcomes for three FSMA rules in the areas of inspections and recalls:
- Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls” rules for both human food and food for animals (preventive controls rules).
- Imported food safety, including data relevant to the “Foreign Supplier Verification Program” (FSVP) rule.
Over time, the Food Safety Dashboard will be populated with additional data to show more FSMA outcomes.
The agency is are also tracking the speed of response to problems when they arise. One of the metrics it is beginning to track on the dashboard is how quickly a firm issues public notification for a Class 1 recall—the most urgent type of recall—for human and animal food. The dashboard will be updated periodically with metrics for “Days from Recall Initiation to Firm Press Release to the Public.”
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