Sharpless, Yiannas Announce Food Safety Tech Pilot, Public Meeting

FDA announced a slate of new food safety proposals on Tuesday (April 30), including a pilot to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to review imported foods; an effort to move towards digital food tracing technology; a promise to look into how to oversee the e-commerce food delivery system; and a public meeting to discuss all of the above with industry and state and local governments. The goal of the “New Era of Smarter Food Safety” plan is to...