I spent years enforcing FSMA before most of the companies affected by it had finished reading the summary. So when people ask me what it actually means in practice, I try to give them a different kind of answer than they'd get from a lawyer or a trade association. The short version: FSMA changed who is responsible for food safety in the United States, and most companies still haven't fully absorbed that. The Pre-FSMA World Before 2011, FDA's posture toward food safety was mos