WASHINGTON — The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make several important changes to its draft guidance document that addresses the agency's expanded powers to access facility records under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The 2011 food and feed safety law, which applies to grain elevators, millers, grain and oilseed processors, biofuels plans (that sell coproducts as feed ingredients) exporters and many other sectors of the food industry, expanded FDA's authority to access records to situations in which it has a "reasonable belief" that other products — not just a. . .