US: Technology helps to make Food Safety Modernization Act successful

Will the latest wave to hit the American food shore bring immediate significant sustainable reform to this industry or could it be just one more futile attempt via a subdued murmur aimed at appeasing consumer food safety awareness?

Say it ain't so? This is the first major food industry overhaul by the FDA since 1938? When you consider even the CDC reporting foodborne illness affects over 76 million Americans yearly, not to speak of averaging 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 related deaths, why this long?
Can we afford it? They tell us a modest $1.4 billion over five years will be needed to fund the program. Mountain or mole hill, tax payers get ready. Better question, can we afford not to start being more proactive and taking advantage of new technology that will improve our food safety.

Recently, much has been penned on how this passage of legislation will now place the focus on analyzing scientifically food safety environmental hazards and implementing risk-based preventative controls. Sanitation protocols must now be based on peripheral vision evaluation.
Historically and traditionally, most; growers, packers, cold storage, processors and retailers have utilized best practices within sanitation programs. However, one lingering intrusive predator is airborne cross contamination. Invisible at first but there is a price to pay left unattended.
NASA developed a safe non chemical (no ozone or no reactive oxygen species) food safety air sanitation technology, AiroCide, now protecting many food companies globally from cross contamination, destroying airborne mold as well as VOC's like ethylene gas.