In the June/July edition of Food Safety Insights, we presented the first of our findings from the survey we conducted earlier this year on your views of your current top issues in your food safety program. That column focused on your opinions of the impending reorganization of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Human Foods program. In this article, we will explore what you see as the most pressing issues you are currently dealing with in your programs.

To address those issues, however, you need to have some level of stability and normalcy in your daily operations. One of the questions we asked suggested that many of you may still be in crisis mode.