Mitigation Strategies To Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration; Final Rule

The Food and Drug Administration is issuing this final rule to require domestic and foreign food facilities that are required to register under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) to address hazards that may be introduced with the intention to cause wide scale public health harm. These food facilities are required to conduct a vulnerability assessment to identify significant vulnerabilities and actionable process steps and implement mitigation strategies to significantly minimize or prevent significant vulnerabilities identified at actionable process steps in a food operation. FDA is issuing these requirements as part of our implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The notice published in the Federal Register on 27 May 2016, 81 FR 34166 and can be found at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-27/pdf/2016-12373.pdf.