FDA Releases New FAQs, Compliance Tools for Traceability Rule for High-Risk Foods
FDA recently added new frequently asked questions and other information to its website to help industry comply with upcoming requirements of its Food Safety Modernization traceability rule for high-risk foods, the agency said this week. The new FAQs “address questions…
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to help clarify how the rule applies to specific situations and are largely based on questions received” from industry, FDA said. Also included are “commodity risk" scores for a list of “foods and associated commodity-hazard pairs,” new supply chain examples to “illustrate how the rule is applied in different scenarios for different commodities,” and more foreign language translations of compliance tools, FDA said. The compliance date for the final rule, issued in November (see 2211150064), is in January 2026.