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USDA - FSIS Topics and Issues being covered include:

FSIS Topics/Issues 

• parallel activities re FDA’s nutrition innovation strategy (includes modernizing food standards, defining "healthy", revising ingredient names, and other initiatives)

• priorities for ingredient approvals, GRAS, food additives, packaging, contact substances, and sources of ionizing radiation

• heavy metals and foreign contaminants, safety criteria and labeling implications, prompted by the baby food issue (criteria on contaminants, safety, labeling aspects?)

• cell-based technology for meat/poultry – jurisdiction, labeling

• plant-based alternates – labeling, nutritional profiles

• “uncured” policies/regulatory action

• learnings from the pandemic and how that's changed policy priorities and inspection priorities, including foreign establishments and imports.

• views on trends in “flavors” and other functional food ingredients (e.g., natural antimicrobials) derived from fermented/cultured sources

• future of food labeling approval system