FDA Jump Starts Broader Records Access Under Food Safety Reform

The agency dispenses with notice and comment before imposing an IFR because the authority for expanded access to food product firms’ records was effective when FSMA became law in January 2011. FDA also publishes a draft guidance on FSMA-imposed records regulations.

FDA will impose an interim final rule March 1 – without prior notice and comment – detailing its expanded access to food and supplement manufacturers’ records as granted by the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The agency says it dispensed with notice and comment before imposing the IFR because its expanded authority went...

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