After Signing Food Safety Pact With Australia, FDA Turns To EU

FDA this week signed its third international food safety pact -- recognizing Australia's system as comparable to that of the U.S. after having signed similar agreements with Canada and New Zealand -- and now turns its attention to the EU, an agency spokesperson told Inside Health Policy . The agreements allow FDA and the foreign food agencies to consider each others' oversight actions when deciding how to prioritize inspections and to collaborate more closely on disease outbreaks. The spokesperson told...