Enhancing food safety [[electronic resource] ] : the role of the Food and Drug Administration / / Committee on the Review of Food and Drug Administration's Role in Ensuring Safe Food, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources ; Robert B. Wallace and Maria Oria, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465663703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-91701-3; 9786612917011; 0-309-15274-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (589 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WallaceRobert B. <1942->; OriaMaria
• Disciplina: 363.1920973
• Soggetti: Food - Safety measures - Government policy - United States; Food - Safety regulations - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Summary""; ""Part I: Setting the Stage for Understanding and Improving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Role in the Food Safety System""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Food Safety System: Context and Current Status""; ""Part II: Toward a Stronger and More Effective Food Safety System""; ""3 Adopting a Risk-Based Decision-Making Approach to Food Safety""; ""4 Sharing the Responsibility for a Risk-Based System: Models of Governance and Oversight""; ""Part III: Implementation of the New Food Safety System""; ""5 Creating an Integrated Information Infrastructure for a Risk-Based Food Safety System""""6 Creating a Research Infrastructure for a Risk-Based Food Safety System""; ""7 Integrating Federal, State, and Local Government Food Safety Programs""; ""8 Enhancing the Efficiency of Inspections""; ""9 Improving Food Safety and Risk Communication""; ""10 Modernizing Legislation to Enhance the U.S. Food Safety System""; ; ""11 Achieving the Vision of an Efficient Risk-Based Food Safety System""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agendas""; ""Appendix B: Past Recommendations About the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Program""""Appendix C: Food Safety Systems in the United States and Other Countries""; ""Appendix D: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Defense Program""; ""Appendix E: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Imported Food Safety""; ""Appendix F: Food Safety Research at Intramural and Extramural U.S. Food and Drug Administration Research Centers, by Topic""; ""Appendix G: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Protection Plan""; ""Appendix H: Glossary""; ""Appendix I: Acronyms and Abbreviations""""Appendix J: Committee Member Biographical Sketches""