The landmark Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) just keeps getting more and more important. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled four proposed amendments that will likely make a tough law even tougher.

The FSMA, signed into law in January 2011, is designed to tighten food safety regulations and shift the focus to a proactive mindset and away from FDA’s relatively reactive approach in years past. The FDA has now proposed seven rules to implement the FSMA. This new wave of proposed revisions target four areas: produce safety, preventive controls for human food, preventive controls for animal food, and the foreign supplier verification program.

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