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The following topics are on the agenda for FDA's Office of Food Safety, Office of Food Additive Safety, and Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling officials to cover on July 29: 

• plans and priorities for regulatory and policy actions and the FDA/FSIS viewpoints on the impact on seasoning blenders

• the FSMA traceability proposed rule, AI, supply chain, imports

• the Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative

• the Nutrition Innovation Strategy (includes modernizing food standards, defining "healthy", revising ingredient names)

• 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?)

• plant-based/cell-based technology

• retail and e-commerce – future policy actions on safety, labeling?

• learnings from the pandemic and how that's changed policy priorities

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

• sodium targets

• Faster Act regulatory action status, clarity on compliance date