Baku-APA. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued two proposed rules that require imported food to meet the same safety standards as food produced in the United States, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The proposed rules are part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2011, the FDA said in a statement. The safety act focuses on preventing food safety problems, rather than relying primarily on responding to problems after the fact, it said.
Under the proposed rules, importers would be accountable for verifying that their foreign suppliers are implementing prevention- oriented food safety practices, and achieving the same level of food safety as U.S. growers and processors, the FDA said.
The agency said it is also proposing rules to "strengthen the quality, objectivity, and transparency of foreign food safety audits."
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