--- title: FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks description: The new rules require importers and producers to make sure the food is clean canonical: https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-13T20:24:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:36:16.587Z article:section: Health og:title: FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks og:description: The new rules require importers and producers to make sure the food is clean og:url: https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks twitter:description: The new rules require importers and producers to make sure the food is clean twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 13, 2015 8:24 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 13, 2015 8:24 PM UTC The Food and Drug Administration released new rules Friday aimed at making sure that fresh produce and imported foods are free of dangerous germs and other contaminants. The new rules require importers and producers to make sure the food is clean, and provide for outside auditors to check into procedures at foreign food suppliers. Currently, the FDA waits until there are outbreaks and then responds to them — often far too late to save people from eating food that makes them sick. Now, the industry has a responsibility to stop outbreaks before they happen, said Dr. Michael Taylor, the FDA’s deputy… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/food-drug-administrations-new-rules-aim-clean-fruit-veggies-n463076?cid=par-time%5F20151113) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/"},"headline":"FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks","datePublished":"2015-11-13T20:24:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:36:16.587Z","description":"The new rules require importers and producers to make sure the food is clean","url":"https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/","keywords":["Nutrition"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nutrition/","name":"Nutrition"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4112110/fda-clean-fruit-veggies/","name":"FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules to Prevent Outbreaks"}}]}] ```