Law360, New York (November 18, 2014, 12:33 PM EST) -- In January and July of 2013 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued four of its proposed food safety rules designed to implement portions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. On Sept. 19, 2014, in response to extensive objections from regulated industry to the provisions outlined in these proposed rules, the FDA proposed significant revisions to these previously published proposed rules. Generally, the FDA would not seek comments on revisions, but in this case the agency is taking an unusual step in order to ensure that the final rules reflect industry input. Also of note is that the FDA entered into a consent decree whereby under court order the agency must meet new deadlines for publication of final rules implementing FSMA to the Federal Register for publication. The new deadlines corresponding to each rule are listed below:...