 Article |  Food safety law is here, and so are some of its
effects  Now what? Yes, the new food safety law did get passed,
yes it did get signed into law. FILED IN:  Machinery  >
Inspection It seemed toward the end of 2010 that those events
were uncertain to occur, though the law had been worked on and
touted as just-around-the-corner for over a year. (We looked at
that phenomenon, and some important issues raised by the law, in
last month's column, packworld.com/article-31132).  But here it
is, the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Modernization
Act, changing FDA's powers over many of the food companies it
regulates and adding burdens, uh, responsibilities, to food
companies. Meat and poultry companies aren't affected, since
they are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about
which this law does nada.  Learn about packaging innovation at
The Packaging Conference in Orlando, February 3-5, 2014The theme
of the new and multifaceted law is prevention. That is, its many
new provisions are inte