VIDEO: How will the Trump administration affect FSMA?

The Trump administration has promised to roll back two regulations for every new regulation. How will that affect the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the U.S. animal feed industry?

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The Trump administration has promised to roll back two regulations for every new regulation. How will that affect the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the U.S. animal feed industry?

Richard Sellers, senior vice president of public policy and education at the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), says he can’t say exactly how FSMA will be affected, but he is hopeful there could be some positive results.

“We’re not really sure exactly if it’s going to get down far enough into the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the (Food and Drug Administration), but we certainly have a hope that we can reach some understanding and negotiate some better rules that are less costly while maintaining the feed safety and, particularly, give us some more compliance time,” Sellers said at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), held this week in Atlanta.

“We think we’ll have an ear to the administration and we look forward to seeing what happens in the coming year,” Sellers said.

FSMA compliance dates, flexibility concerns

While the FDA extended some compliance dates, AFIA has been outspoken about the speed at which the U.S. feed industry was required to comply with FSMA.

FDA also added some flexibility for the feed industry, for example on the final rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food, but also added some inconsistent exemptions, AFIA has said.

The FSMA sanitary transportation final rule takes into consideration more than 200 comments submitted by the transportation industry, food industry, government regulatory partners, international trading partners, consumer advocates, tribal organizations and others, according to Megan Bensette, health communications specialist, office of foods and veterinary medicine, for the FDA.

 

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