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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing the 2005 edition of the Food Code, which contains the latest science-based information on food safety for retail and food service industries. The Food Code is used as a reference by nearly 3,000 regulatory agencies that oversee food safety in restaurants, grocery stores, nursing homes, and other institutional and retail settings.
"This year's Food Code not only includes the best practices for the retail and food service industries but it also provides valuable resources on food defense that will assist in protecting Americans against threats to the food supply," said FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Director Robert Brackett.
In collaboration with the Conference for Food Protection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, the updated Food Code focuses on enhancing food safety practices based on new scientific and programmatic information. The most significant changes include:
Local, state, tribal, and federal regulators voluntarily use the Food Code as a model to develop or update their own food safety rules and to maintain consistency and uniformity with national food regulatory policy. The Association of Food and Drug Officials reported in June 2005, that 48 of 56 States and territories have adopted food codes patterned after the Food Code. Those 48 states and territories represent 79 percent of the U.S. population.
Copies of the 2005 Food Code are available at www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fc05-toc.html. In approximately 8 weeks, copies of the Food Code can be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161.
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