FDA Proposes New Rules
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: January 7, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration is dishing out new rules in an effort to
eliminate foodborn illnesses like Salmonella, Listeria and E-coli.
One of the proposed rules requires science-based standards for growing, harvesting, packing and holding produce on domestic and foreign farms.
The second rule requires companies to have plans for foodborne illnesses.
Each year, one out of every six Americans gets sick from foodborne illnesses -- and about three-thousand *die*.
If the proposed rules get the okay, companies will have up to four years to comply.
One of the proposed rules requires science-based standards for growing, harvesting, packing and holding produce on domestic and foreign farms.
The second rule requires companies to have plans for foodborne illnesses.
Each year, one out of every six Americans gets sick from foodborne illnesses -- and about three-thousand *die*.
If the proposed rules get the okay, companies will have up to four years to comply.
