Transportation and Logistics food transportation food safety rules are currently being finalized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Under congressional instructions, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires the FDA to establish rules to improve, audit and enforce new food transportation rules. The rules provide a significant focus on foods not completely enclosed by a container, risk reducing adulteration prevention, personnel training and certification, inspection and data collection, maintenance and reporting that provides evidence of compliance. These final food transportation rules are expected late in 2015 which leaves perishable food shippers, carriers, receivers and maintenance operations little time to develop and implement risk reducing preventive food handling, load and un-load, distribution and transportation improvements.