On Dec. 21, 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, the first major food safety measure in the United States in more than 60 years. Given the recent and frequent deadly food-borne illness outbreaks, this is welcome news to many Americans. A food safety expert with the W. P. Carey School of Business is breaking down the main points of the measure, explaining how it will affect consumers when it comes to both safety and costs.

“America already has one of the safest food supplies in the world, but 48 million people in the U.S. still get sick, and several thousand die each year from food-borne illness,” says William Nganje, associate professor at the Morrison School of Agribusiness and Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. “This new measure addresses some of the main issues that have contributed to the problem.”

Nganje is well-known for his research on food safety and food defense risk management.

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