Reporting Problems To US FDA Simplified After Delayed Response To Formula Plant Complaint

Streamlined process for reporting problems is key piece of “unified Human Foods Program” which officially launched on 1 October, as Commissioner Robert Califf says, “a new model for field operations and other modernization efforts.”

A delay in US Food and Drug Administration officials learning of a report of unsafe bacterial contamination levels at a key infant formula plant in 2021 was a key reason behind the agency’s reorganization of its food safety programs.

And three years later, a streamlined process for reporting problems is a key piece of the “unified Human Foods Program.”