FDA proposes revision to draft food safety rules

The Food and Drug Administration is suggesting revisions to four rules that it proposed early last year for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) after receiving thousands of comments from agricultural stakeholders, processors and consumers. The updated proposed rules – involving produce safety, preventive controls for human and animal food and the foreign verification program – are being published in the Federal Register and interested parties have until Dec. 14 to submit comments before final rules are issued in 2015, FDA said Monday in a news release. Read more at Agri-Pulse…