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funding, to determine what the needs are, and to ensure that they are incorporated into activities and outcome evaluation.
BOX ES-3.The National Food Safety Plan Should
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Include a unified, science-based food safety mission;
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integrate federal, state, and local food safety activities;
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allocate funding for food safety in accordance with science-based assessments of risk and potential benefit;
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provide adequate and identifiable support for the research and surveillance needed to:
—monitor changes in risk or potential hazards created by changes in food supply or consumption patterns, and
—improve the capability to predict and avoid new hazards;
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increase monitoring and surveillance efforts to improve knowledge of the incidence, seriousness, and cause-effect relationships of foodborne diseases and related hazards;
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address the additional and distinctive efforts required to ensure the safety of imported foods;
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recognize the burdens imposed on state and local authorities that have primary front-line responsibility for regulation of food service establishments; and
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include a plan to address consumers' behaviors related to safe food-handling practices.
Recommendation IIIa:
To implement a science-based system, Congress should establish, by statute, a unified and central framework for managing federal food safety programs, one that is headed by a single official and which has the responsibility and control of resources for all federal food safety activities, including outbreak management, standard-setting, inspection, monitoring, surveillance, risk assessment, enforcement, research, and education.
The committee was asked to consider organizational changes that would improve the safety of food in the United States. During the 6 months of active review of information and deliberation, the committee identified characteristics needed in an organizational structure that would provide for an improved focus for food safety in the United States. The committee found that the current fragmented regulatory structure is not well-equipped to meet the current challenges. The key recommendation in this regard is that in order for there to be successful structure, one official should be responsible for federal efforts in food safety and have control of resources allocated to food safety.
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