date:Mar 24, 2014
The exemption of live animals from the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) sanitary transportation rule might need a caveat.
During the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations public meeting on the rule in College Park, MD, on Thursday, Michael Osterling, executive director of the Shellfish Growers of Virginia, pointed out that shellfish are frequently transported and consumed live and raw.
But live animals along with shelf-stable foods and compressed food gases (e.g., those used to make