The year 2022 marks a significant impasse for a variety of food safety-related regulations on the American Frozen Food Institute’s (AFFI) public policy agenda that should also be top of mind for your company.
This summer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Office of Food Policy and Response (OFPR) released a list of draft and final guidance topics that the agency intends to publish over a 12-month timeframe. That lists includes a compliance policy guide (CPG) for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). AFFI expects the CPG will define FDA’s regulatory approach for Listeria and whether an action level greater than zero will be acceptable for ready-to-eat (RTE) foods that do not support the growth of Lm.