FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Food Safety Culture Systematic Literature Review

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint in July 2020.1 The blueprint outlines a ten-year plan to create a safer food system, one component of which is supporting and promoting food safety culture (FSC). As part of this effort, FDA commissioned a systematic literature review to produce a synthesis of the published literature to answer three overarching questions: 1. What is FSC?; 2. How is FSC developed and maintained?; and 3. How is FSC assessed?.
A specified search algorithm applied to literature published between January 1, 2009 and April 30, 2021, identified 2,293 citations, from which 715 were deemed potentially relevant. A review of the 715 abstracts revealed 152 articles pertinent to the literature review. Full text reading of the 152 articles resulted in 79 “in-scope” articles being retained for analysis and synthesized for this literature review.