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Diving Briefs:
- The FMI -Food Industry Association is pursuing changes in food tracking rules and called “one of the most burdensome regulations faced by the industry.” Monday letter To the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Food Pharmacy.
- Trade Association said that this rule will impose high costs on the industry, including measures that focus on reactivity instead of preventive measures and surpass the FDA’s authority.
- The FMI also suggested that the FDA will withdraw the proposed rules for labeling in the field of packaging because of the “burdensome and expensive” implementation that the FDA will impose on the business.
Dive Insights:
The opinion of the FMI is as follows: HHS requires a proposal It supports “the largest scale control effort in the history of the department”. As part of this recommendation, HHS said, “We welcomed the input to explain how regulatory, guidelines, document requirements and other regulatory obligations can be abolished.
It was proposed during the first term of President Donald Trump In response to a wide range of E. coli generation In the Romaine lettuce, food tracking rules track the food of the supply chain at the company and the grocery store, requiring the rapid identification and rapid removal of the foods that are potentially contaminated.
In March, the FDA said it had planned. Extend the rules for complianceIt was first set for the first time on January 20, 2026 until 30 months to allow the business to allow the business to comply with the requirements of the rules. During FMI I have been concerned for a long time Thank you for expanding the deadline for the complexity of food tracking rules, saying that there is a rules. Additional modifications are required If you do not damage food safety, it promotes compliance better.
“According to the FDA’s own estimates, this rule is expected to require more than 3 billion records. The FDA leads to more than 10 million working hours, resulting in more than 10 million working hours. The FDA estimates that this rule will be more than $ 24.6 billion in the food industry, astronomical numbers. ”
The proposed changes in the trade group include providing flexibility to the trackability of the lotcode, a unique description for identifying a specific food placement within the distribution level at the distribution level. The FMI also wants the rules to identify those who are responsible for assigning a lotcode, not the rules, and the rules are not designated.
Jennifer Hatcher, the chief policy officer of FMI, said, “If you provide flexibility to the lotcode tracking and exemptions, the FDA will be able to receive and utilize the data requested to improve food safety, so that the industry can still perform the rules better.
The FMI also calls for the withdrawal of the proposed rules that require most of the packaging foods in which most of the packaging foods are packaged to display the “Nutrition Information” box in one third of the high -intermediate and low markers with a daily value of sodium, saturated fat and added sugar. If it is approved, the rules will lead to “basic reinstate design of most packaging food labels,” the FMI said.
The FMI also highly recommended that the FDA can cancel the two “old” requirements: 21 CFR Part 11 electronic record storage requirements and warning statements for high protein products.
The trade group asked the FDA to determine the proposed rules for the use of salt substitutes in standardized foods, and the FMI said, “We will promote a small step toward the modernization of standardized foods.”
Hatcher said, “Deregulation can help to reduce the regulatory non -efficiency that interferes with the mission and ultimately increase the cost to consumers.
