Dear Commissioner Makary:
The undersigned members of the Safe Food Coalition write to express our opposition to
FDA’s proposed two-and-a-half year delay in the implementation of the final rule, Requirements for
Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (Food Traceability Final Rule), and to urge you to
implement the rule’s recordkeeping requirements by a date closer to the previously announced
January 20, 2026 compliance date.
That compliance date continues to afford industry ample time to
prepare, and represents an already long overdue enactment of the Food Safety Modernization Act
(FSMA), which Congress passed with broad bipartisan support in 2010 and President Barack
Obama signed into law in January 2011.
