Everyone needs to know how to report foodborne illness and you can now do so withing 24 hours.

Notification must be made using the online Reportable Food Registry, mandated by Congress two years ago in an effort to speed up the process of alerting the FDA of contaminated foods and cutting down on the distribution of such food.

“The Reportable Food Registry will provide a reliable way for the FDA to receive reports from the food industry of food safety problems and to be able to track the patterns of defilement in human food and animal feed in order to support efforts by the FDA to protect the public health and prevent food-borne illness,

Starting today, food companies covered by the new law must file an electronic report to the FDA when there is a probability that a food will cause serious sickness or death; and companies must report problems within 24 hours after a problem has been found.

For more information check out the link below.

The Reportable Food Registry