---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1987.100"
title: "29"
number: "1987.100"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1987.100"
---

# §1987.100. Purpose and scope.

- (a) This part sets forth the procedures for, and interpretations of, section 402 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Public Law 111-353, 124 Stat. 3885, which was signed into law on January 4, 2011. Section 402 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), [21 U.S.C. 301](/usc/21/301.md) et seq., by adding new [section 1012](/cfr/29/1012.md). See [21 U.S.C. 399d](/usc/21/399d.md). [Section 1012](/cfr/29/1012.md) of the FD&C provides protection for an employee from retaliation because the employee has engaged in protected activity pertaining to a violation or alleged violation of the FD&C, or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under the FD&C.
- (b) This part establishes procedures under [section 1012](/cfr/29/1012.md) of the FD&C for the expeditious handling of retaliation complaints filed by employees, or by persons acting on their behalf. The rules in this part, together with those codified at [29 CFR part 18](/cfr/29/part18.md), set forth the procedures under [section 1012](/cfr/29/1012.md) of the FD&C for submission of complaints, investigations, issuance of findings and preliminary orders, objections to findings and orders, litigation before administrative law judges, post-hearing administrative review, and withdrawals and settlements. In addition, the rules in this part provide the Secretary's interpretations on certain statutory issues.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 399d; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 (Jan. 18, 2012), 77 FR 3912 (Jan. 25, 2012); Secretary's Order No. 01-2020, 85 FR 13186 (March 6, 2020).

### Source

Source: 81 FR 22539, Apr. 18, 2016, unless otherwise noted.