Since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published in the Federal Register nearly 800 pages of proposed regulations on the act’s implementation. As stated at the time it passed, the FSMA was the biggest change in food-safety regulations in the past 70 years. Analysis of the written proposals certainly hold true to those words.
The first two proposed rules for implementing FSMA were published by the FDA in January 2013, after a lengthy review and edit by the White House Office of Management and Budget. Before the end of 2013, six more FDA-proposed regulations were published on other parts of FSMA. In March 2014, the FDA published a lengthy proposed regulation on changing the Nutrition Facts labels on all food and dietary supplements.