Dr. David Acheson: FDA Exercises New Authority With a Bang

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In late November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exercised new authority under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to shutter Sunland Inc.'s Portales, N.M. food facility in the wake of a Salmonella outbreak. Leavitt Parnters' Dr. David Acheson says in a recent blog post that there are lessons to be learned from the closure.

"Sunland did put a corrective action plan together (after the Salmonella outbreak)," Acheson writes. "But the FDA did not like what they saw and thus suspended the facility's registration. The critical lesson here is to work very closely with the regulators in response to situations like this."

Acheson also writes that he predicted that FDA would first exercise its registration suspension authority under FSMA with a "big bang." He said the shuttering of Sunland proves his "big bang theory."

Read the whole blog post here.