ABSTRACT
In addition to the United States, for every food manufacturer in the world, the single core program that underlies most other food safety programs contained within the quality control manual is the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. Predicated on the Food and Drug Administration’s early landmark 1938 Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and subsequent amendments, it is written specifically to deal with the serious issues of food adulteration and food misbranding. In it, 21USC342 SEC. 402 states:
This section and the subsequent sections specifically state that it is the responsibility of the food manufacturer to produce a product that is unadulterated and not misbranded.
