Food Safety
In: Food Science and Technology Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Food Safety and Nutrition: FDA Can Build on Existing Efforts to Measure Progress and Implement Key Activities( -- Abbreviations -- Why GAO Did This Study -- What GAO Recommends -- What GAO Found -- Background -- FDA Organizational Structure for Food Safety and Nutrition -- Key Food-Related Laws -- Federal Regulation and Guidance Development Processes -- FDA Has Conducted Numerous Key Food Safety- and Nutrition- Related Activities, Determining Its Priorities Based on Statutes and Strategic Goals -- FDA Published Key Regulations and Guidance, Focused Mainly on Food Safety, and Conducted Other Food Safety- and Nutrition- Related Activities -- Agency Officials Said FDA Based Its Priorities on Statutes and Strategic Goals, but How It Decided between Issuing Regulations and Guidance Was Not Always Clear -- Agency Officials Said FDA Based Priorities on Statutes and Strategic Goals -- The Bases for FDA's Decisions for Issuing Regulations or Guidance Were Not Always Clear -- FDA Dedicated at Least 1 Billion per Year, Including Salaries for at Least 4,300 FTEs, to Food Safety- and Nutrition- Related Activities in 2011 through 2016 -- For Fiscal Years 2011 through 2016, FDA Dedicated at Least 1 Billion and 4,200 FTEs Annually to Food Safety- Related Activities -- In Fiscal Years 2011 through 2016, FDA Dedicated at Least 20 Million and 97 FTEs Annually to Nutrition- Related Activities -- FDA Has Set Goals for Food Safety- and Nutrition-Related Activities Every Year since 2011 but Cannot Fully Assess Progress -- FDA Has Set Goals for All Agency Activities, and since 2012, the FVM Program Has Set Specific Goals for Food Safety- and Nutrition-Related Activities -- FDA Has Developed Performance Measures for Its Food Safety- and Nutrition-Related Goals but Cannot Fully Assess Progress toward These Goals.