Question

1. Describe the food safety modernization act's approach to managing foodborne illness.

2.WIC state agencies are required by law to have infant formula suppliers bid competively for the exclusive right to supllg infnay formula under the WIC program. Bame three implicstions of this policy.

Answer 1

1. THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT (FSMA) IS AN ACT WHICH TRANSFORMED THE FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM OF NATION BY ANNOUNCING THE AIM THAT PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. THE ACT SHIFTED THE FOCUS OF FOOD SAFETY MEASURES FROM RESPONDING TO FOODBORNE ILLNESS TO PREVENTING THEM AT ITS INFANCY STAGE. THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION IS ENACTED IN RESPONSE TO THE DRASTIC CHANGES IN THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM AND UNDERSTANDING OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. THE PREVENTABLE FOODBORNE ILLNESS IS BOTH A CRUCIAL HEALTH PROBLEM AND  HARMFUL TO ECONOMIC WELL BEING OF THE ENTIRE FOOD SYSTEM.

IMPORTANT RULES UNDER FSMA
* FOREIGN SUPPLIER VERIFICATION PROGRAM
* SANITARY TRANSPORTATION OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL FOOD
* CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE AND HAZARD ANALYSIS AND RISK BASED PREVENTIVE CONTROLS FOR HUMAN FOOD
* CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE AND HAZARD ANALYSIS AND RISK BASED PREVENTIVE CONTROLS FOR FOOD FOR ANIMALS

2. THE SPECIAL NUTRITION PROGRAM,FOR WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN ARE POPULARLY KNOWN AS WIC, WHICH PROVIDES NUTRITION FOOD, COUNSELLING ON HEALTHY EATING, BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT FOR LOW INCOME WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN WHO WHERE AT NUTRITION RISK.
COMPETITIVE BIDDING IS A METHOD IN WHICH A STATE OR MULTI-STATE ALLIANCE INVITES BID FROM THE INFANT FORMULA MANUFACTURES FOR THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO PROVIDE INFANT FORMULA TO WIC PARTICIPANTS. IT HELPS THE GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN THE LOWEST NET PRICE FOR FORMULA.