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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