Model Food Code (2013 Excerpts)

1. Adoption. All fifty staes have adopted food codes patterned after the Food Code. See Real progress in Food Code Adoption, US FDA (2011). Some states adopt a version of the code by reference. others directly enact into into statute, regulation, or ordinance. 2. Updating. The Federal Food Safety Working Group was convened by President Obama in 2009 to develop strategies for improving food safety. Part of the difficulty is that while the FDA updates the Food code every couple of years, states tend to fall behind as changing state and local law requires affirmative actions from legislators or regulators whose agendas are already quite full. State and local officials regularly cite the frequent changes to the Food Code as obstacles to its uniform implementation.

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