The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

   As one of the leading economies of the world with all-round development; the US attaches an extremely high degree of importance to food safety. Since large sections of the diverse population eats food that is prepared from various sources; the public has a tendency for contracting foodborne illnesses.

  Food contamination is a national issue

   These illnesses are a major worry for US health authorities, since close to 50 million people -an alarmingly high rate of nearly a sixth of the entire population -gets affected by foodborne illnesses every year in the US, resulting in hospitalization for at least a 100,000 of them. A few thousand people are also known to die in the US due to foodborne illnesses.