A Better Way to Clean Up the Food Mess: Creating a New 'FAD'
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EmailDeAngelo argues that the complex and disparately funded regulatory oversight for food and beverage products, spread out among many federal agencies, has created a regulatory mess that demands a radical fix.
Link to Kris DeAngelo's article in the October/November 2024 edition of Food Safety Magazine here: https://digitaledition.food-safety.com/october-november-2024/
In this article, Kris DeAngelo takes a historical look at how the United States food regulatory agencies, including the USDA and FDA, came to be organized as they are. She describes inconsistencies in the way products are regulated by different agencies and explores how "the disparate funding for these disjunct regulatory bodies... leads to a lack of uniform vision and inconsistencies in oversight, inspections, and enforcement." She concludes that “the current system fails the two common goals of an effective food regulatory system: safe food with accurate, informative labels and a protected, coherent, fair marketplace that encourages innovation,” and calls for a rearranging of federal agencies.
Learn more about the United States food regulatory system with MSU's online graduate courses, particularly:
- Food Laws and Regulations in the United States (fall and spring semesters)
- Regulatory Leadership in Food Law (fall semester)
MSU's Institute for Food Laws and Regulations offers online graduate courses to food industry professionals. Most IFLR students work full time for food companies or regulators, and take one online course at a time to further their professional development. Students may take as few or as many courses as they desire, and may earn a Certificate in International or United States food law after completing twelve qualifying credits (usually four courses).
