The FDA on Friday, Sept. 29, will hold a public meeting titled “Modernizing Food and Drug Administration Recalls Listening Session.” Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for stakeholders, industry and the public to share information and feedback about topics related to recall modernization for FDA-regulated products.
Perceived topics are:
- General recall preparations/contingency planning
- Creating successful recall strategies, including methods to reach underserved communities
- Initiating a recall
- Strategies for public warning, including press releases, social media, and other communication tools
- Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of recall information exchange
- Ensuring effective recalls
- Terminating a recall
- Strategies for reducing recall recurrence for similar situations
It will be held in person at FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Md., 9am-5pm ET. It also will be webcast, details of which are shared when you register.
Registration is required, and there is a series of deadlines: Sept. 1 to attend in-person and/or to speak; Sept. 15 to email-in accompanying presentation materials; Sept. 29 to attend virtually; and Oct. 27 to submit after-the-fact written comments to the docket FDA-2023-N-2393.
Read more and register here.
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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.