The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a new food safety rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that will help prevent wide-scale public health harm by requiring companies to prevent intentional adulteration of the food supply. Under the new rule, both domestic and foreign food facilities, for the first time, are required to complete and maintain a written food defense plan that assesses potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination when the intent is to cause wide-scale public health harm.
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