Key Provisions

This section provides a detailed overview of key provisions in the Act and will continue to be updated with additional information on a regular basis.

• Inspection of records
• Registration of food facilities
• Hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls
• Performance standards
• Standards for produce safety
• Protection against intentional adulteration
• Authority to collect fees
• Sanitary transportation of food
• Targeting of inspection resources for domestic facilities, foreign facilities, and ports of entry, annual reports
• Laboratory accreditation for analyses of foods
• Enhancing tracking and tracing of food and recordkeeping
• Mandatory recall authority
• Administrative detention of food
• Improving the reportable food registry
• Foreign supplier verification program
• Voluntary qualified importer program
• Authority to require import certifications for food
• Prior notice of imported food shipments
• Accreditation of third party auditors