FDA Schedules Meetings to Discuss Proposal on Sanitary Transportation of Food

The Food and Drug Administration will hold three public meetings to discuss a recent proposal that would create new sanitation requirements for transporting food (see 14020301). The first two meetings will cover "both the focused mitigation strategies to protect food against international adulteration and sanitary transportation of human and animal food proposed rules" and will be held in Chicago and Anaheim, Calif., said the FDA. The third meeting, in College Park, Md., will "cover only the sanitary transport proposed rule during the proposed rule comment period," the agency said. The Chicago meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27, the California meeting for March 13, and the Maryland meeting for March 20, it said.