LAKE ALFRED – Quietly amid the more widely covered Washington news over health care, the budget and the economy, President Barack Obama in January signed a historic new law that will affect how food is produced, shipped and consumed across the world.
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 was the first major reform of food safety regulations since 1938, said Mickey Parish, a senior adviser with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which will write and enforce 50 new regulations and guidelines under the law during the next three years.
"It established a new paradigm: prevent contamination," Parish told about 70 citrus growers, packinghouse officials and academics at the 50th Annual Citrus Packinghouse Day at the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred on Thursday. "Prior to this time, all we could do is react to contaminated food that got on the market."
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