FDA Officers Push New Data Tools To Improve Food Safety

FDA officials detailed the agency’s long-expressed intention to usher in a new food safety era by using emerging tools like artificial intelligence and blockchain to create a more traceable system. During an FDA webinar Tuesday (June 30), Frank Yiannas, FDA commissioner for food policy and response, said the new analytical technologies are leading to a paradigm shift that will allow the agency to track food products in real time. “When food scares happen, we often find that one Achilles’ heel,”...