The Government Food & Drugs/Analyst Department will be seeking to better position itself to comply with the United States’ Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) this year by moving to have its laboratories accredited so that tests carried out on foods targeting overseas markets can meet standards that obtain in the USA and in other parts of the world, according to Director of the Department Marlan Cole.
Signed into law by President Barack Obama in January 2011, the FSMA aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by, among other things, containing contamination by exercising oversight targeting food imports.
Speaking with Stabroek Business on the work done by the Department in 2015 and some of its objectives for the current year, Cole said that the push for accreditation would also embrace the Inspectorate arm of the
