FDA launches consumer-friendly Web search for consumers during recalls April 5, 2011

Here is an interesting press release from FDA:

Beginning today, consumers can search for food and other product recalls easier and quicker on FDA’s website than previously. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) signed into law in January by President Obama called for a more consumer-friendly recall search engine.

To provide greater ease of use for consumers, the search results provide data from news releases and other recall announcements in the form of a table. That table organizes information from news releases on recalls since 2009 by date, product brand name, product description, reason for the recall and the recalling firm.

For more information:

• FDA Web page:  Recalls & Safety Alerts
• FDA Consumer Update Video:  Identifying Recalled Products
• FDA photostream of recalled products on Flickr
• FDA Consumer Update:  FDA 101: Product Recalls – From First Alert to Effectiveness Checks
• FDA Web Page:  Food Safety Modernization Act
• FoodSafety.gov Web Page:  Food Recalls and Alerts