The meeting is designed to help the agency improve its understanding of how we can leverage data and technology to exponentially advance food safety and achieve better health outcomes. The New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative was launched in 2019 to signal a new approach to food safety, leveraging technology and other tools and approaches to create a safer and more digital, traceable food system. In the initiative’s Blueprint we acknowledge that our activities to advance the New Era of Smarter Food Safety will evolve as technologies and the food system evolve. The morning session of the public meeting will consist of presentations from FDA to explain our current thinking on the potential for new, innovative or different data and technology activities that could be leveraged by both government and industry to exponentially advance food safety. The afternoon session will be reserved for public comments to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to share feedback on how and where advances in data and technology can be leveraged to significantly accelerate FDA’s ability to improve public health outcomes.

New Era of Smarter Food Safety:
https://www.fda.gov/food/new-era-smar...

Blueprint:
https://www.fda.gov/food/new-era-smar...

Docket:
Comments on Data and Technology in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety should be submitted on or before June 24, 2024. Submit electronic comments to https://www.regulations.gov to docket number FDA-2024-N-1744.