Every year nearly 1 in every 6 Americans become ill, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Food safety and foodborne illness are matters of critical concern, requiring new regulatory tools for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2011, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) into law to help prevent foodborne illness.
