FSMA Reports & Studies
The Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) requires special reports to Congress and studies on FDA's activities and impact of FSMA. Below is a listing of those reports and studies.
Reports Required by Law
- Report on food facilities, food imports, and foreign offices, including efforts to cooperate with other agencies
- Reports on international food safety capacity-building
- DHS report on activities of the Food and Agriculture Government Coordinating Council and the Food and Agriculture Sector Coordinating Council
- Report on the basis for selecting countries with foreign offices, their progress, and plans for additional foreign offices
- Report on Food Emergency Response Network
- 2019 Report to Congress on the Food Emergency Response Network (PDF: 124KB)
- 2015/2017 Report to Congress on the Food Emergency Response Network (PDF: 110KB)
- 2013 Biennial Report to Congress on the Food Emergency Response Network
- 2011 Biennial Report to Congress on the Food Emergency Response Network
- Report on national agriculture and food defense strategy, implementation plan, and research plan
- Report and evaluation of effectiveness of programs administered by HHS
- Study and report on unique identification numbers
- Report on Use of Mandatory Recall Authority
- 2020 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority (PDF: 72KB)
- 2019 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority (PDF: 60KB)
- 2018 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority (PDF: 81.1KB)
- 2017 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority (PDF: 50KB)
- 2016 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority (PDF: 50KB)
- 2015 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority
- 2014 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority
- 2013 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority
- Study and report on the food processing sector
- Study on food transportation
- Report on pilot projects on product tracing
- Report on programs and practices to promote for safety and supply chain security of food
- Report of food safety programs, outlining successes and future programs
- Report on the Joint HHS/USDA food safety and food defense research plan
- Report on fees collected
- Report on post-harvest processing of raw oysters regulation
Sections of the Law Relating to Reports & Studies
- SEC 103. Hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls
- SEC 107. Authority to collect fees
- SEC 108. National agriculture and food defense strategy
- SEC 109. Food and Agriculture Coordinating Councils
- SEC 110. Building domestic capacity
- SEC 111. Sanitary transportation of food
- SEC 114. Requirement for guidance relating to post harvest processing of raw oysters
- SEC 201. Targeting of inspection resources for domestic facilities, foreign facilities, and ports of entry; annual report
- SEC 202. Laboratory accreditation for analyses of foods
- SEC 204. Enhancing tracking and tracing of food and recordkeeping
- SEC 206. Mandatory recall authority
- SEC 305. Building Capacity of Foreign Governments with Respect to Food Safety
- SEC 308. Foreign offices of the Food and Drug Administration