ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Environmental Health and Safety

Environmental Health and Safety

Question 1: Approaches to enhance Food Safety

Food can become contaminated at many different steps along the path from farm to fork - on the farm, in processing or distribution facilities, during transit, at retail and food service establishments, and in the home. In recent years, we have done a great deal to prevent both deliberate and unintentional contamination of food at each of these steps. FDA has worked with other Federal, state, local, and tribal food safety agencies, as well as with law enforcement and intelligence-gathering agencies, and with industry and academia ...