FDA Opens Reportable Food Registry Electronic Portal

 
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness via a new Reportable Food Registry (RFR), where food industry officials are required to use in order to alert the FDA quickly, through an electronic portal when they find their products might sicken or kill people/animals. The requirement, a result of legislation, took effect with the launch of the portal.  The RFR applies to all FDA-regulated categories of food and feed. Registered food facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States under section 415(a) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 350d) are required to report when there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, an article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.

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